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Roger, the fact that failed asylum seekers might have been in the UK for a prolonged period is usually down to the fact that the Home Office takes so long to remove them as they exercise their rights of appeal and M.P.s make representations etc. Let's rip up the 1951 Convention.
There's a sonnet fixed to the Statue of Liberty:-
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Fine words in their time but it would be a bit daft if the U.S. Immigration Service used them as operating instructions. I suggest that that's the position of the 51 Convention on Human Rights.
