CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS TO BE DEPORTED – Children of failed asylum seekers will be deported even if they were born in the UK

Children of failed asylum seekers will be deported even if they were born in the UK, a Home Office minister has said.

Alex Norris, the border security and asylum minister, said that anyone who did not have the right to be in the UK would be removed as he pledged that the Home Office would “ramp up” the removal of families whose refugee claims had been rejected.

In an interview with The Telegraph, he also defended plans to offer failed asylum seekers and foreign offenders a “big” increase from the current £3,000 to persuade them to return voluntarily to their home countries.

He declined to give a figure, but said it would not be more than £10,000. Denmark, which has provided a model for Labour’s reforms, has offered asylum seekers between £5,000 and £24,000 to return home.

Mr Norris also pledged to end the “whack-a-mole” of multiple, often spurious, late claims by migrants to thwart their deportations – by forcing them to present their full case at the start of the process. However, the Government will not remove judges’ role in final appeals against deportation.

He was speaking as a new immigration removal centre (IRC) near Oxford received its first group of inmates on Thursday.