"What is it about Western governments that makes them unable to enforce their own immigration laws? Something suicidal is at work here, although I am not at all sure it is empathy. The London Times headlines: "20,000 migrant criminals living freely in UK despite deportation orders."
Fewer than one in 20 foreign offenders from certain countries can expect to be deported, with thousands subject to deportation orders living free in the community, new data reveals.
Figures for June 2025 — the first of their kind to be released — show 20,000 foreign offenders were living free in the community despite being subject to deportation orders, with return rates for some countries so low that fewer than one in 20 can expect to be deported.
So a deportation order in the U.K. is like deportation orders have historically been in the U.S.: a symbolic act only, with little likelihood that the object of the order will actually be deported.
Foreign offenders subject to deportation orders have gone on to reoffend while living in the UK.
Radiet Meles, who arrived in the UK from Eritrea on a lorry, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for attempted rape in 2018, and was told he would likely be deported after serving his sentence. He was not monitored after his release and went on to attack another woman. He was found guilty of rape and assault by beating by a jury in September, and will be sentenced this month.
Gift Oladele, from Nigeria, was jailed for 17 years in April this year for the rape and sexual assault of a young woman. He was already on bail for another allegation of rape, and had been previously jailed in 2022 for a sexual offence. The Home Office sought to deport him after his first sentence, but he won his appeal on human rights grounds.
"Human rights grounds." The woman he raped enjoyed no human rights."
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