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Home Office in illegal immigrants cover-up

By John Hirst

Home Office in illegal immigrants cover-up

"Hundreds of illegal immigrants ? including a suspected murderer and other criminals ? are working in care homes in Britain, a leaked Home Office report has disclosed".

Home Office Care Home memo in pdf here.

I watched Home Secretary Jacqui Smith being grilled by Andrew Marr this morning on this subject. More importantly, she was asked to justify her seeking to extend the detention limit to 42 days. Andrew Marr pointed out that Jacqui Smith had used 5 ifs in a row. Hardly a strong justification based upon so many assumptions? Andrew Marr then asked Jacqui Smith if she would resign if she lost the vote. There was a long winded reply which did not answer the question. But, the assumption is that she does not feel strongly enough about the issue to resign if she loses. Therefore, why has she made such an effort to push this through in the first place?

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on March 30, 2008 (boomark / email).