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One of Britain's top immigration lawyers has declared the Home Office "unfit for purpose" following a bombshell GB News exposé on the state of the country's deportation system.Speaking to GB News, Harjap Singh stated that "everything it [the Home office] touches, it destroys" as he reacted to Political Correspondent Katherine Forster's sit-down interview with a man "begging" to be sent home.FULL STORY HERE.
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I speak to my next guest now. It's the immigration lawyer, Harjap Singh
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Harjap, welcome to the show. Always a pleasure to have your company. No doubt it's overheard there. Suddenly we have action
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Catherine Forster has achieved what the Home Office simply failed to do. Yeah, and there's many cases like this where people do want to go back, but there are delays
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I mean, if you have a passport and you're overstaying and your passport's valid
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the best way to go back is buy a ticket and you could go back tonight. But what happens is a lot of the time travel documents expire
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And so new ones have to be made by the respective embassies. And that's where the problem takes place and the delays take place
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The embassies are very loathed to issue them straight away. They say we want to do an inquiry back home to see is this person who he is
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And just that process takes months. I mean, certain embassies are notorious for their delays
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So the Indian embassy takes months in doing that as well as the Bangladeshi embassy
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And that where the delays happen But there is definitely delay on the side of the Home Office and the Home Office with their procedures The point is the Home Office want to include everyone in the removals and the
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deportation figures, even if people go back voluntarily. So the Home Office are always like
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you might have seen the latest post on Instagram where it says we've deported or removed 50,000
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people since they came in last July. Now, what they don't tell you is that many of them are
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voluntary and people have just decided to get up and go yet the home office um consider that in the
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figure so people might think where have the home office rounded up 50 000 people put them into vans
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and held them and sent them back and they'll be right in thinking that because many of those people
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just got up with their passport and went back home but we have a rare glimmer of sunlight in
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catherine forces victory but it just seems astonishing to most ordinary sane people to hear
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that people are begging to be deported, and they can't be. It like people begging to get put in prison and we can lock them up The whole thing is slipping through into clown world Well we know Martin and how many years have we been talking about this Everything the Home Office touches it destroys
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Whether it's passport applications, whether, you know, it's the borders, whether it's a visa applications, whether it's the e-visas
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whether it's the queues at Dover. This Home Office is not fit for purpose
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You know and I know that there's a Home Affairs Select Committee every year
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And for the past 12, 13 years that we've been reading the reports, it says this is an institution not fit for purpose
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Now, if you have a factory or machinery that's not fit for purpose, it doesn't matter what the quality of worker you have or what manager you have on it
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If your machinery can't produce it, you're not going to get a product. And that's the problem that the staff are not trained up to the level
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You have sometimes have gap year students making decisions. You have ex staff appointed to make decisions about legal complex legal matters and often they get them wrong leading in appeals and complex situations and waiting times So this is actually how the Home Office operates And until this is sorted out you going to get from one calamity to another It doesn
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irrespective of what government's coming. We've seen all of this before and we've seen schemes
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being thought up and yet loopholes in the schemes, be it the bogus colleges from 2010s that were
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operating above sweatshops with one room in there calling over hundreds of people with student visas
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being it a highly skilled visa program that allowed people to come in and the people found to be working there were then not working in highly skilled jobs
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They were found to be working in supermarkets. Or be it the student visas and the fake marriages being contracted
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to bring their dependents over, allowing them over, couples over, and then realising this year, well, hold on, just before a general election last year
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we might want to stop this. So it's loophole after loophole. When you don't have a company, you're not going to have a product
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You're exactly right. My favourite being, of course, the woman who married somebody who was dead
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and still managed to get a visa to say, hard yet, saying we should get people like you involved in the Home Office
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It might have all of a chance
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