http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2084128.html
Richard Ford
"THE Government's 'loss of control' of the asylum system means that it will take between ten and eighteen years to remove all failed applicants from the country, says a highly critical Commons report. The Home Office has lost track of tens of thousands of failed asylum-seekers and only knows where a quarter of them are living. It also has no idea of the whereabouts of 400 foreign national criminals released from prison. The report said that the Government's overall asylum policy has been undermined by the failure of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to remove failed applicants. "
The House of Commons report is available on line at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmpubacc/620/62002.htm
