Amber Rudd privately boasted to the prime minister that she would give immigration officials more “teeth” to hunt down and deport thousands more illegal migrants and accelerate the UK’s deportation programme, a leaked private letter has revealed. Her goal implied she wanted to throw out an extra 4,000 illegal migrants every year. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Illegal and would-be illegal migrants ... need to know that our immigration system has ‘teeth’, Rudd wrote. Rudd told May that her strategy was “informed by the review that you commissioned as home secretary”. “It is wilfully misleading to conflate the situation experienced by people from the Windrush generation with measures in place to tackle illegal immigration and protect the UK taxpayer.

Source: The Guardian April 20, 2018 14:21 UTC