James McMurdoch and Sarah Pochin are highlighting the 10,000+ foreign national prisoners who are housed in Britain’s prisons.
This is 12.5% of the entire prison population and all of these foreign nationals could be immediately deported permanently from the UK – every single prisoner costing us at least £46,000 per year, and some figures say over £55,000 per year – that’s £460,000,000 to £550,000,000 every year! ….yes, that’s 1/2 Billion per year.
….but in fact, when all knock-on costs, including the costs of releasing other offenders early and those consequences, are taken into account, then the costs are probably over 3/4 Billion!
Albanians top the league, yet they could be immediately sent back. The Albanians are the nationality most likely to be jailed for drug offences, with 439 held for such crimes, more than four times any other nationality.
Among them is Ronaldo Zani, a 26-year-old cocaine dealer who was twice deported, only to return to the UK a third time to be caught again and imprisoned last month.
It is part of the Reform manifesto that all foreign nationals will be immediately deported and will lost all rights to claim asylum, – Reform will also amend the 1951 Refugee Convention so that the UK can refuse asylum to anyone, including children, who has travelled through a safe country and will no longer be required to house them or provide benefit to them. This means, says Reform, that the Charities that are currently using their money to assist transport to Europe and the UK will have to re-focus their efforts on the maintenance of individual refugees.
Reform will also use fingerprinting and facial recognition to identify everyone entering and leaving the UK to identify those who have claimed asylum before as well as those who have claimed asylum and then travelled back to that country for a holiday.