Migrant Crisis: Labour is putting foreign criminals' rights ahead of the safety of British people, writes Chris Philp

Labour is putting foreign criminals' rights ahead of the safety of British people Labour's approach to deportation is putting public safety at risk and leaving British victims to pay the price, writes Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp Sign up to the Opinion Newsletter I agree to receive updates and information about my account, the GB News Community, and related products and services from GB News. Email address Sign up By signing up you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy and Community Rules.

Thank you for signing up! See the latest from GB News here . Choose GB News on Google - add us as a preferred source Choose GB News Support GB News Champion free speech and independent journalism while unlocking exclusive benefits. Support us Earlier this year, illegal immigrant Gift Oladele from Nigeria was jailed for 17 years for the violent rape of a young woman. Shockingly, he was already on bail for another allegation of rape and had previously been jailed for a different sex crime.

The Home Office had tried to deport him after his first offence, but Oladele claimed he shouldn’t be deported as it would breach his right to family life under the ECHR. The court shamefully accepted this ridiculous human rights claim, and he was allowed to stay in the UK, where he went on to commit more sex offences against women here. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say I’m sick to the stomach that the so-called human rights of this foreign criminal were treated as more important than protecting British women and girls.

Endless human rights claims and the absurd Labour belief that it is somehow racist to return criminals to countries outside Europe mean dangerous foreign criminals have been allowed to stay in the UK and have gone on to commit crimes like rape and murder here after they should have been deported for previous offences. We already know there are over 20,000 serious foreign criminals living freely in the UK despite being subject to deportation orders.

We suspected that while many foreign criminals are deported to Eastern European countries, very few are deported to home countries outside Europe. The government have vowed to finally close an infamous loophole which has let illegal migrants and foreign criminals stay in the UK | GETTY So, I submitted a Freedom of Information request to get to the truth. The Home Office fought for a year to hide the information, but faced with an appeal to the ICO, they finally released the data last week.

It shows that all my fears were true. Only a tiny fraction of foreign criminals from many countries outside of Europe are ever returned home and instead are released into the community here, where they often go on to reoffend. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Deportation crisis as 20,000 foreign offenders remain free in UK despite removal orders Foreign criminals sneak back into Britain after deportation at RECORD rate, new figures show Labour argues migrant criminals' rights outweigh public interest amid claims of data 'cover-up' GB News has revealed that thousands of illegal migrants have lied about their age to gain asylum in Britain | GETTY Only 4.2 per cent of Algerian foreign criminals living in the community were deported, and only 6 per cent of Bangladeshi offenders were returned last year.

Only 4.8 per cent of Nigerian foreign criminals were deported under this Labour Government in 2025 and for Jamaican offenders, it’s just 3 per cent. This is hardly surprising given that Labour’s Home Secretary previously signed a letter demanding that all flights deporting Jamaican criminals be cancelled. One of them went on to commit murder here. The next Conservative government have vowed to deport every foreign criminal. | GB NEWS Labour thinks being kind to foreign criminals is more important than protecting the law-abiding British public.

That is unjust and unfair, and it makes my blood boil. The Labour Government continues to let serious foreign criminals out to roam our streets, with many more being released due to the Government’s policy of letting prisoners out after serving just a third of their sentence. We must deport all foreign criminals; it’s that simple. If someone comes to Britain and commits a crime, they must go. The next Conservative government will deport every foreign criminal.

We will do this by leaving the ECHR and the modern slavery treaty, so criminals can no longer abuse human rights or modern slavery legislation to avoid removal. We will return offenders to their country of origin and if any country refuses to take back its own criminals, we will use visa sanctions, aid cancellation and other leverage to ensure that they do. We cannot be squeamish about deporting foreign national offenders to certain countries when we must do this to keep the British public safe.

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