We'll send prisoners back to 'unsafe' countries, says Blair

Admission that no one knows how many illegal immigrants are in the country forces Prime Minister on the defensive

By Richard Ford

FOREIGN prisoners will be sent back to countries that were previously considered to be unsafe for deportation, the Prime Minister pledged yesterday.

Forced on to the defensive by another day of damaging revelations about failures in the immigration system, Tony Blair cast aside previous government commitments not to send people to states where they could face inhumane treatment.

But his promise to try to get round human rights laws was undermined by his own Immigration Minister. Tony McNulty said that there would be situations where it would not be possible to deport people.

Of the 1,023 foreign national prisoners who were not considered for deportation having served prison sentences, 58 were from Iraq, 42 from Algeria, 19 from Iran and 48 from Somalia. All four are countries to which British courts are reluctant to deport, having grave reservations about human rights abuses ..

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2185727,00.html

Disappear scumbag! :puke:

and to be hauled before an INS court, suddenly unable to prove that I am a citizen by birth ..

I'm just sick of his face and his smarmy manner, and his psycho wife, and his bobble-headed cabinet, and his castrated party, and his inability to grab his ass with both hands without PNAC telling him to. :cry: