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. 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.

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He (bLiar) added: “Those people, in my view, should be deported irrespective of any claim that they have that the country to which they are going back may not be safe.”



My two cents:

Way to go tony. Even the David Cameron doesn't support your decision to send people back to places where they have a likelihood of being tortured and/or killed. Although, I do think Cameron is protecting the pocketbpook of his business cronies as much as anything else. I guess all that time hanging around "duh - bya" is rubbing off on you.


the article can be found at:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29389-2185727,00.html