These appalling cases, rightly highlighted by The Mail on Sunday today, are certain to infuriate the public.
Foreign rapists, drug dealers and fraudsters are being given a free pass in a system which, I can only conclude, is rigged against the British people.
These feral criminals must be laughing at how naive we are.
Olutobi Ogunbawo’s case alone is mind-boggling. The idea that the rights of a criminal’s partner to access IVF treatment should be elevated beyond the British public’s right to feel safe is disgraceful. It offends every sense of fairness.
And what is frankly shocking is the judge’s abysmal failure to grasp the facts.
The decision to block the deportation of a Jamaican man because he claimed to be bisexual, despite no evidence of any relationship with a man, is equally ridiculous and points to a wider pattern of abuse. In our twisted system it seems you could make anything up and gullible immigration judges will believe you.
Yet this is just a snapshot. Similar cases crossed my desk in the Home Office with alarming regularity. They left me furious.
The public are being forced to live in fear alongside these dangerous foreign criminals.
Robert Jenrick (pictured) writes that ‘foreign rapists, drug dealers and fraudsters are being given a free pass in a system which, I can only conclude, is rigged against the British people’
He cites the case of Olutobi Ogunbawo, who has avoided deportation because it would impact his wife’s ability to access IVF treatment
‘Foreign Secretary David Lammy (pictured) has been too busy surrendering British territory’, Mr Jenrick writes
That fear is not misplaced. Statistics show foreign criminals who avoided deportation committed a staggering 10,000 offences in a single year.
Jamaican Ernesto Elliott, a prolific criminal whose deportation was blocked after Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs objected, murdered a man in a knife fight.
Lloyd Byfield, whose deportation to Jamaica was also blocked, murdered a young woman in her own home.
More than 10,000 foreign criminals now languish in our prisons at a cost to the taxpayer of hundreds of thousands of pounds each – yet Keir Starmer is letting out hundreds of career criminals because our prisons are full.
It is blindingly obvious that we need to be deporting these individuals. The Government should be using every lever to force their home countries to take them back, including halting visas or foreign aid to those who refuse to cooperate.
But instead, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been too busy surrendering British territory.
And Keir Starmer doesn’t care enough to change the human rights laws that make this mess possible.
The public are right to be furious. The current system is nothing short of a scandalous betrayal.