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Britain tightens measures, Albanians with rejected asylum are offered up to 10,000 pounds to return home
2025-12-06 08:43:22 / AKTUALITET
Foreign criminals and rejected asylum seekers will not receive more than £10,000 to return home, British Secretary of State for the Home Department, Shabana Mahmood, said, according to the Daily Express.
Mahmood wants to increase the amount given to immigration offenders, foreign convicts and people who have been refused asylum in the UK – to encourage them to leave.
Border Security Minister Alex Norris said the payments - currently up to £3,000 - were a huge sum - due to the costs of housing illegal immigrants.
He insisted that the aid would not exceed £10,000 – although he refused to specify an exact figure.
Norris revealed, for the first time, that the Home Office would deport children born in the UK if their parents were set to leave.
His statement came ahead of the arrival of the first migrants at the Campsfield Immigration Centre, which has reopened as part of efforts to increase deportations.
"At the moment, the kind of regime we're talking about is around 3,000 poods," Norris said at the Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, which the Home Office reopened as it tries to ramp up deportations.
"We are considering a possible pilot program to scale this up," he added.
"The reality is, this is a huge amount because – if someone needs to stay in a hotel for a long period of time – it is very costly for the taxpayer," he stressed.
"Offering incentives for voluntary returns serves taxpayers, makes this process easier," Norris said.
"If there are ways to make sure this happens more often, then that's what we're looking at closely," he added.
Asked if payments could reach £10,000 per migrant, Norris insisted he could not approve this figure.
Each asylum seeker costs, on average, £30,000 a year for accommodation, food, clothing and emergency cash payments.
Immigrant families whose asylum claims have been rejected will be deported if they refuse cash incentives.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will order the forcible deportation of families who refuse to receive larger incentives, according to the Home Office.
"Currently, there are a significant number of families who are going to be deported. However, this has not been part of the mainstream approach of the British Home Office, which means that we are in a situation where we have 700 Albanian families who are rejected asylum seekers, from a country that is a signatory to the ECHR "European Convention on Human Rights" and they are not leaving," said Norris.
"Ultimately, it will be everyone's case based on the merits under immigration law, but because of the circumstances and in these cases, people will be left," Norris said when asked if this included children born in the UK.
The Labour Party insists that 50,000 foreign criminals, rejected asylum seekers and immigration law violators have been removed since the government of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer took office./ATAH
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