Rejected petition Automatic Deportation for Immigrants Convicted of Serious Crimes

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Where they have been convicted of anything other than a minor offence. Immigrants, legal or otherwise and irrespective of how long they have been in the UK, should be automatically deportated and repatriated to their country of origin or birth, on completion of their sentence without any right of appeal.

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Date submitted 1 September 2011
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