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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Caitlin Doherty

Foreign criminals awaiting deportation ‘could be made to wear electronic tags’

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (PA) - (PA Wire)

Foreign criminals could be made to wear electronic tags and subject to night-time curfews while the Government is waiting to deport them, under new plans set to be unveiled by ministers.

An amendment to the Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill will mean tougher restrictions can be put on people who have committed a crime or have been deemed a threat to the public, but cannot yet be removed.

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