{"id":6454,"date":"2022-06-30T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2022-07-05T10:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T09:32:22","slug":"deportation-of-murderers-plummet-in-midst-of-flurry-of-human-rights-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/2022\/06\/30\/deportation-of-murderers-plummet-in-midst-of-flurry-of-human-rights-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Deportation of murderers plummets in midst of flurry of human rights challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Collapsing enforcement and the present border chaos threatens the safety of families in the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is because, in the midst of huge abuse of human rights law, removals of high harm individuals have plummeted. New government statistics show that enforced removals of the highest harm immigration offenders and foreign criminals have fallen from 2,200 to less than 1,000 in the past decade.\u00a0 (To see the figures, click here<\/a>, go to return summary tables in link and select tab ‘Ret_06’).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of serious foreign criminals (foreign national offenders or FNOs) who have been removed from the UK each year has plummeted from 6,200 in 2016 to 2,700 in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile the number of serious foreign criminals living in communities among families has nearly tripled since 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Home Office notes: “‘Higher harm\u2019 assessments include people who have committed serious criminal and immigration offences”.<\/strong> These include those who pose a threat to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a 2014 National Audit Office report<\/a>, 1 in 6 foreign national offenders living in the community abscond. It also noted that 15% of just under 400 foreign national offenders who absconded were ‘high harm’ offenders. See p. 8 of report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are other concerning trends with regard to the growing collapse of enforcement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n