New UK Border Force

[IainBusby]

Common sense...Develop a fasttrack system to deport. Other EU countries manage it, while we pussy foot around the Human Rights act.

I heard the guy on last nights program say that you can get an emergency travel document within 24 hours from the Nigerian embassy so I wouldn't be surprised if most embassies do the same. If the illegal imigrants knew the system had changed and they couldn't just work the system by claiming they hadn't any documents and they were likely to spend quite a while in a detention centre with the same end result (deportation), then I'm sure they'd would be queuing up to show their passports or apply for emergency travel documents once they had been caught.

I think there might be some initial extra expense until the problem was brought under control, but in the long run I think it would save millions of pounds and improve the job prospects of those who were born here or are legally entitled to be here.

Iain.

[darren-b]

Common sense...Develop a fasttrack system to deport. Other EU countries manage it, while we pussy foot around the Human Rights act.

You mean like France who just tend to release them as they know they are heading for the UK anyway?

I heard the guy on last nights program say that you can get an emergency travel document within 24 hours from the Nigerian embassy so I wouldn't be surprised if most embassies do the same. If the illegal imigrants knew the system had changed and they couldn't just work the system by claiming they hadn't any documents and they were likely to spend quite a while in a detention centre with the same end result (deportation), then I'm sure they'd would be queuing up to show their passports or apply for emergency travel documents once they had been caught.

I think there might be some initial extra expense until the problem was brought under control, but in the long run I think it would save millions of pounds and improve the job prospects of those who were born here or are legally entitled to be here.

Iain.

There will be a lot of initial expenses - the UKBA would have to be prepared to lock up every illegal immigrant they catch that they couldn't prove the identity of until they admitted who they were. I agree with the idea, just can't see any of the mainstream parties implementing it.