Ex UK Border Force head: Illegal migrants must be deported 'swiftly'

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2024-09-30

London (PA Media/dpa) - The former director general of the UK's Border Force said that illegal immigrants need to be deported "swiftly" as Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to scrap the Rwanda Plan was criticised by Conservative Party members. Tony Smith, who led the UK's border force operation until 2013 after starting his career in the Home Office in the 1970s, told an immigration debate at the party's conference in Birmingham he thought t......

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