UK Illegal Immigrants ‘May Get Amnesty To Stay’ – Sky News

Thousands of illegal immigrants could be granted an amnesty to stay in the UK to clear a massive backlog of cases, MPs fear.

The number of outstanding immigration and asylum cases rose by 25,000 in three months and is "spiralling out of control".
The Border Agency (UKBA) caseload is now equivalent to the population of Iceland, said Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee.
More than 300,000 cases needed to be dealt with at the end of June, up 9% over the previous three months, a committee report indicated.
The Border Agency had 302,064 cases to investigate, trace or conclude by the end of June - more than 25,000 compared with the end of March, figures showed.
Most of the increase came from a rise of more than 24,000 missing migrants denied permission to stay in the UK but whose whereabouts are unknown.
The outstanding cases also included 95,000 in the so-called controlled archives

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