By Gabriel Princewill-
A petition to stop 50 Jamaicans being deported today failed, as the Home office confirmed it had deported 42 Jamaicans on a charter flight that left the Uk today, Wednesday,
The petition which was circulating on a number of Facebook networks read:
50 Jamaicans Nationals are scheduled to be ‘deported’ on a chartered on a chartered flight tracker , so we cannot say at this stage which airline it is”.
The 50 people include those who have not exhausted their domestic appeal procedure, but who are now being told they should appeal in Jamaica and others who may have missed appointments with the Home office. They are being labeled as “criminals and deportees”.
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It includes people who are being separated from children, grandchildren, partners, and other family, and have been living in the UK for years. One is an elderly man. Two are full time carers to their partners”.
The deportees had argued that that there family life will be affected if they were deported, but critics have lamented the Home office’s response that they can maintain a relationship with their families through Skype.
The Home Office have always maintained that none British citizens who commit crime will be deported, and that position is not unreasonable. Britain has enough challenges with it’s own citizens without the extra strain posed by foreign residents who commit crime.
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If individuals without a stay are aware of the law, the duty is on them to abide by the law. The seriousness of the crimes will obviously be a substantive issue to assess- a value judgment based on the legal and subjective value of fairness- the gauge ostensibly used by the Home office.
Deportees who are not criminals, but haven’t been naturalized, present a different issue for evaluation. Especially those who are carers for their partners, a good reason for their deportation will be necessary to show that the Home Office are not arbitrarily kicking people out of the country who ought to have a legitimate right to be here.
When The eye of media.com approached the Home Office about the bitter complaints, the initially expected figure of 50 deportees, had dropped by 8 to 42.
A spokeswoman said in a statement:
42 people were removed to Jamaica on a charter flight that left the UK on Wednesday 7 September. Of those, 37 were foreign national offenders convicted of a range of offenses”
5,810 foreign nationals offenders were removed from the UK in 2015-16, the highest number ever.
Charter flights are generally used to remove people with a history of non-compliance or who pose a risk to the public, for their safety and that of other passengers.
In considering the use of charters, account is taken of the availability of scheduled aircraft routes, the cost of maintaining detention and the individual circumstances of each subject”.
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