Daily Star

RUDD IN WAR ON MIGRANTS

Pledge to catch illegals

- By ALEXANDER BROWN alex.brown@dailystar.co.uk

AMBER Rudd privately pledged to give officials greater “teeth” to hunt down illegal migrants.

A leaked letter reveals the Home Secretary drew up a scheme to lock up and remove immigrants.

The “ambitious plans” were revealed in a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May.

They included a promise to increase removals of illegal foreigners by 10% with a focus on “arresting, detaining and forcibly removing illegal migrants”.

The revelation comes in the wake of the Windrush scandal.

Some migrants from the Caribbean were ordered to prove they have the right to stay in Britain even though they have been here more than 50 years.

Part of Ms Rudd’s plans included taking £10million away from tackling low-level crime and using it to support a crackdown on illegal immigratio­n.

She wrote: “Illegal and would-be illegal migrants, and the public more widely, need to know our immigratio­n system has ‘teeth’.”

A Home Office spokesman said it was “wilfully misleading” to compare the situation experience­d by the Windrush generation with measures to tackle illegal immigratio­n.

Meanwhile, Mrs May last night said the Government is to make compensati­on payments to members of the Windrush generation who suffered as a result of official challenges to their migration status.

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