U.K. Has Operated Immigration Amnesty on Asylum, Lawmakers Say
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The U.K. has effectively operated a backdoor amnesty on illegal immigration for more than a decade because of failings in the government agency controlling entry, a panel of lawmakers said.
Of the backlog of as many as 450,000 asylum cases built up since the late 1990s, 161,000 people have been granted leave to remain and the U.K. Border Agency has been unable to trace the applicants in about 74,500 cases, the Home Affairs Committee said in a report published today.