Government Allows 144,000 Asylum Seekers to Stay in the UK

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An incompetence at the Home Office and UK Border Agency results in more than 144,000 asylum seekers, which should have been deported, to stay. The government has now been attacked on this issue.

Reports have come in that 63,000 of the 450 historic cases that had been forgotten about by the government for many years have not just been granted leave to stay in the UK permanently. Of course, under the controversial Human rights legislation, someone who has been living in the UK for a number of years will not automatically be allowed to stay.

These reports go on to say that over 197,500 asylum cases had been labeled "legacy backlog" by the Chief Executive at the UK Border Agency. Over 32 percent of these cases have now been approved to stay in the UK. People are attacking the government on this and saying that it's amnesty by the back door.

According to some of the cases found in these 450,000 files, some deportations should have been made back in the 1990's. Some of the people that should have been deported includes 4,500 asylum seekers from Somalia, 4,900 asylum seekers from Pakistan, as well as 5,150 asylum seekers from Zimbabwe. According to the chief executive of the UK Border Agency, at least 7,000 of these cases have never been traced.

Many people say that this is a big problem due to all the work that the UK Border Agency has been doing try to keep people who do not belong in the UK out. Experts say that this goes against everything that they have been working for, and it seems to erase everything that they have done.

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