Since deportations and immigration laws has been a discussion recently what do people think of this?
“In 2022, when Burnham was mayor of Greater Manchester, he called on the Conservative government "to do everything" within its power to deport grooming gang members”
Don’t get me started on the fact hes still not in jail (19 years is not enough) but he cannot be deported despite immigrating from Pakistan to the UK due to arriving before the 1971 (1973 came into affect) immigration law allowing deportation, being able to remain on a technicality (although I cannot find when he arrived in the UK
Why is this story relevant? Immigration is a top policy in the UK and Andy Burnham is attempting to win over areas at risk to Reform and without them would likely lose a general election
Posted by SuperblackHunter
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In the eyes of the average prospective voter, it’s a no-brainer common-sense position.
Why not life in prison? Like if he was deported would he automatically be put in prison in pakistan or would he just be free to do the same evil stuff there? And if he would be free there then just jail him for life in the uk.
I think it would be political suicide to argue against this with how the average voter feels.
However, I don’t really know if deportation is the answer to this though. The individual has been in the country for the majority of their life. If they immigrated before 1971 that is minimum 55 years. At this point, deporting them back to where? They’ve been in the UK so long their entire life is there potentially?
I would support a longer prison sentence rather than deportation in this case.
Stripping citizenship for a crime no matter how heinous is gross, evil and illiberal. I’m not surprised by this and it’s far from the most heinous of the anti-immigration policies Labour was capitulated to, but removing citizenship is always bad. I understand that the citizenship removal has already occurred but I think we need to continue to denounce it