Posted on 07/03/2011 2:29:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A consultation paper to be launched within days will open up a debate on the future of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees "the right to a family life".
Article 8 is increasingly being used by foreign criminals and illegal immigrants to dodge deportation.
A highly-placed source told The Sunday Telegraph that the issue would be raised in a paper on immigration to be issued by Home Secretary Theresa May before Parliament breaks up for the summer.
It comes as this newspaper can reveal that a new Article 8 test case has created a "loophole" which could allow thousands of asylum seekers granted the right to stay in Britain under the Government's "back door amnesty" to bring their families to this country.
Last week, a separate court ruling left the Home Office unable to deport more than 200 Somali immigrants, most of them criminals, after judges in Strasbourg decided that sending them home would breach Article 3 of the convention, which bans inhumane treatment.....
The issue of immigration has also divided the Cabinet, it has emerged. Downing Street has rejected a plan by Mrs May to put a cap on the number of foreign students allowed to work after they finish their studies in Britain, after resistance from Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Michael Gove, the Education Secretary.
The developments make it harder for the Coalition to meet its pledges to tighten border controls and cut immigration, after figures last week showed the UK population was growing at its fastest rate for half a century......
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We ourselves are the greatest challenge we face; it is our own morality, our decency and heart-felt belief, in that if we only treat people kindly they will change for the better.
Unfortunately, that belief is destroying Europe and ourselves, literally from the inside-out.
Liberalism.
It’s destroying safe, secure and prosperous countries.
We should learn from Europe’s mistaken experiments with multiculturalism and other “progressive” policies.
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