ALL foreign criminals face deportation regardless of crime severity under Shabana Mahmood's immigration crackdown

All foreign criminals will face deportation regardless of the severity of their crime under Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's immigration crackdown.

Her move will see all foreign offenders who are in Britain being considered for deportation.

Under current legislation those who have received a year-long sentence or longer are automatically considered for deportation, but the bill will see a blanket expansion of any criminal offence.

The Immigration and Asylum Bill, which was published on Tuesday, the judiciary will be told the criminal-record-holder should be deported "unless the effect on the person or a member of their family would be disproportionate".

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The more serious the offence and its impact on society, the bill states, then the "greater is the public interest in the person's deportation".

It states there are only three narrow routes where an exception can be applied: long and lawful residence, with social and cultural integration with very significant obstacles to integrate abroad, a genuine relationship with a "qualifying partner" or "qualifying child" where deportation would be "unduly harsh", and other "very compelling circumstances" at least as strong as the former points.

The bill will significantly restrict the use of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to block deportation.

Migrants will only be permitted to bring such claims if they are actually living with their spouse, partner or child.

The bill narrows what is understood as "family life" for Article 8, limited it largely to a "core cohabiting familly" e.g. a spouse or partner and minor children living together.

This means it makes it harder for someone facing deportation to rely on wider family ties, such as adult children, other relatives, non-cohabiting partners, to resist removal from the UK.

Those who formed families while in the UK illegally will no longer be able to use those relationships to avoid removal.

The Home Office estimates the reforms will result in around 14,000 fewer people being granted the right to remain on family grounds.

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However, the department admitted the true impact was "uncertain," conceding that more than half of those denied the right to remain would likely avoid deportation regardless.

An analysis conducted by the Telegraph found 400 immigration appeals by foreign offenders in the past 18 months involved sex offenders, robbers, domestic abusers, arsonists and fraudsters who had successfully challenged their deportation.

They have claimed breaching of their rights to a family life under Article 8.

A review of 3,000 Upper Tribunal rulings found 426 involved foreign criminals.

Of those, 369 had offended in the UK - 340 of these people challenged their deportation using ECHR grounds, with 149 succeeding in their claims, a 44 per cent win rate.

The cases included a 60-year-old Spanish drug dealer, who was jailed for seven years.

He avoided deportation after judges cited his ex-partner's depression.

The tribunal found removing him would be "disproportionate" and breach of his Article 8 rights, given the impact on her and their three children.

A Polish domestic abuser was jailed for more than three years and also rated a "high risk of harm to children".

However, he kept his right to remain so he could continue parenting his daughter.

Judges ruled deportation was a breach his Article 8 family life rights.

A Pakistani drug dealer who won his appeal partly on the basis that staying would let him teach his son how to shave and "talk to him about things a mother could not".

Judges accepted deportation would breach his right to life.

GB News has reached out to the Home Office for further comment.

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