Trump Deports Hundreds of Criminals to Britain

Hundreds of convicted criminals are being deported to Britain under Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal migrants.

Prisoner welfare campaigners have warned that UK Government agencies have done little to prepare for convicts and migrants being sent back, with many at risk of ending up homeless or turning to crime.

Figures obtained by The Telegraph have revealed that the number of people flown back to the UK by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials has doubled since Mr Trump took office for the second time last year.

ICE data show that 212 people were deported to the UK from the US between Mr Trump’s inauguration on Jan 20 and Oct 15. That works out at an average of 5.5 a week – double the rate of 2.6 a week for the same period up to the end of Joe Biden’s term as president.

Of those deported to the UK since Mr Trump took office, around half (53 per cent) had no charges or convictions, 24 per cent were convicted criminals, and 23 per cent had criminal charges pending.

The majority had failed to obtain permission to stay or never applied for citizenship, only to be picked up and detained as part of enforcement operations against illegal migrants.

The figures for deportations, collated by Berkeley University’s deportation data project, are understood to include a significant proportion of people who were born in the UK but spent most of their childhood and adult life in the US without obtaining American citizenship.

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