Put Britain’s safety before migrants’ rights, Mahmood to tell judges
Home Secretary to increase deportations and restrict asylum seekers’ use of ECHR in plans modelled on Denmark
Shabana Mahmood will force judges to prioritise public safety over the rights of illegal migrants in a crackdown on asylum claims.
The Home Secretary will on Monday pledge to “scale up” deportations as she announces new restrictions on the way judges apply the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when foreigners appeal against being removed from the UK.
Ms Mahmood will propose new statutory rules that require judges to prioritise public interest and safety over migrants’ claims that deportation would breach their family rights or put them at risk of “inhuman” treatment if they were returned to their home country.
In addition, the number of offences that qualify foreign criminals for automatic removal will be increased. Labour has already committed to denying all foreign sex offenders asylum rights, but currently convicted migrants can avoid deportation if their offence does not merit a sentence of a year or more in prison.
Ms Mahmood is also planning to overhaul modern slavery laws to require migrants to make a claim that they have been a victim as soon as they arrive in the UK, rather than allowing them to raise them unexpectedly later on.
The changes are part of what sources claim to be “the most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in modern times”. They are modelled on Denmark, where migrants’ rights to remain are conditional on being in full-time employment, learning Danish and having no criminal record.
Ms Mahmood hopes to emulate the success of Denmark’s centre-Left government, which has countered the threat from Right-wing parties by reducing asylum claims to their lowest level in 40 years and deporting 95 per cent of rejected asylum seekers.
The moves came as the Home Office revealed almost 50,000 failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and other immigration offenders had been removed from the UK since July 2024, a 23 per cent increase on the previous 16 months.
Ms Mahmood said: “Nearly 50,000 illegal migrants have been removed or deported since the election. We’ve ramped up enforcement, deported foreign criminals from our streets, and saved taxpayers millions. I pledge today to scale up the removal and deportations of illegal migrants and do whatever it takes to secure our borders.”
The Telegraph has revealed multiple cases where illegal migrants have invoked the ECHR to avoid deportation, including an Albanian criminal who was allowed to stay in Britain partly because his son would not eat foreign chicken nuggets, and a Palestinian family permitted to come to the UK under a refugee scheme for Ukrainians.
The new rules will limit the ability of judges to block deportations of migrants for “exceptional” reasons, which now account for a third of successful appeals, by tightening the definition. They will bar claims from migrants who say they will suffer “undue hardship” simply because medical standards are lower in their home countries.
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