A fast-track system will now be able to remove failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals within 28 days, the current average being 36 days. This scheme will send 2,000 home from the UK, each year.
Liz Tuss, the justice secretary said that it is vital that foreign nationals who have no right to remain in the country should be removed as quickly as possible and ensure that criminals and failed asylum seekers are not exploiting the justice system by attempting to stay in the UK after their claims have been rejected.
Under the current proposal, about 400 foreign national offenders and 1,600 failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants could be removed or deported each year. The number of failed asylum seekers being removed forcefully or voluntarily fell from just over 18,000 in 2006 to 3,446 in 2016.