'SOFT TOUCH UK' OFFERS ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BUSINESS SUPPORT!

ILLEGAL migrants are getting help setting up businesses and are being handed accommodation, food and travel assistance as part of a “taxpayer-funded farce”, a Sunday Express investigation can reveal.

- MICHAEL KNOWLES

The Home Office is so desperate for failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals to leave voluntarily they are being offered help with launching their own firms as well as accommodation for “up to five nights” in their home country. People removed to a host of countries including Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Jamaica, can also request someone to meet them at the airport and receive help “finding and reuniting” with family.

This has stirred fears that Britain is seen as a “soft touch” by bankrolling “luxury repatriation retreats”. With Labour trying to ramp up the number of migrants leaving voluntarily, those receiving support in their home countries is set to soar.‘The organisation contracted by the government, IRARA, proudly declares it offers “visa application support” services, including help with citizenship applications and visas for work, family and study.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “This shows that Labour's UK is a soft touch. Instead of frogmarching illegal immigrants on to a plane, the government is offering them special treatment.

“If being here illegally does not carry serious consequences then more and more illegal immigrants will keep coming in. If we pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights, we will be able to rapidly and forcibly deport all illegal immigrants without needing to offer taxpayer-funded bribes to persuade them to leave voluntarily.”