Almost 20,000 foreign offenders are living freely in Britain as appeals have clogged up the deportation process, revealed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
The number, documented in March of this year, is more than double the 8,500 counted at the same point in 2020, and more than triple the 5,895 of 2016. This despite the current government seeing the 'highest level [of returns and deportations] in nearly a decade,' Mahmood said.
