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| July 5, 2012 | 150,000 illegal migrants, refused permission, still staying on freely in UK | | London: The UK does not have a track record of at least 150,000 migrants who have been refused permission to stay in the country, a watchdog has warned. According to The Independent, John Vine, chief inspector of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), said there is no clear strategy to find out what proportion of this growing number of migrants is still living in the UK illegally. "Tracking these absconders down and removing them from the
country is not seen as a priority for the agency," Vine said. "There are over
150,000 cases nationally of migrants who have been refused an extension of stay
in the UK . The agency does not know how many of these individuals have left the
country or who are waiting to be removed," he added. Shadow Home Secretary Yvette
Cooper described Vine's report as "damning" for the Government. Keith Vaz, chairman
of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "I am astonished that the
UKBA has no idea where 159,000 individuals, the size of a city like Oxford , have
gone since their application was rejected." Immigration Minister Damian Green
said: "Under the last government there was no effective strategy in place to ensure
migrants left at the end of their time in the UK ". "The UK Border Agency is now
working through a group of potential overstayers to identify those who have not
left," he said.
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