When should a foreign offender be deported? The government’s new policy is that foreign offenders should be deported immediately after conviction, rather than after having served some fraction of a sentence of imprisonment imposed by a court. The measure is framed as ‘radical action’ to strengthen border security and to fix the broken criminal justice system, with the Justice Secretary promising that new legislation will ensure that deportations happen ‘earlier than ever before’. She says that ‘Our message is clear: if you abuse our hospitality and break our laws, we will send you packing’.

What the government is proposing is simply to let foreign offenders walk free without punishment

This is an Orwellian inversion of the truth. Deporting foreign offenders before they serve their pri

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