Another day goes by and yet another case emerges of a failed deportation.
This time, a failed Iraqi asylum seeker has been allowed to stay in the UK because his mother, who still lives in Iraq, refused to hand over his ID documentation to the court, bolstering his supposed claim that his life would be under threat if he returned to Iraq.
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As a result, the upper tribunal judge ruled that returning the man to Iraq would be a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights – “no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in all circumstances”.
But this comes after countless other cases of avoided deportations that have made a mockery of our system – whether it’s the Albanian criminal whose son didn’t like foreign chicken nuggets or the Nigerian woman who was allowed to stay after joining a terror group, it’s clear our asylum system is broken.
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All roads lead back to one place – the European Court of Human Rights. The ruling elite loves to remind us that it was an invention of Winston Churchill’s, but anyone with any sense of history knows Churchill would be horrified by what we see today.
The original convention was a noble document, but the court’s interpretation follows the living instrument doctrine – in other words, it is free to invent new rights that it believes is in the spirit of the original convention.
Take for example, Article 8, the right to family life. This article was originally written to protect against totalitarian surveillance states, but the court now interprets it to apply to everything from noise abatement to eviction for non-payment of rent to, crucially, deportations.
It is precisely because of Article 8 that it is impossible to deport so many illegal migrants.
But the Human Rights Act passed under Tony Blair forces all court judgments to adhere to this increasingly deranged foreign and unaccountable court.
The only way to restore common sense to our migration system, deport the more than one million illegal migrants in the UK and stop channel crossings is by leaving the ECHR and repealing the Human Rights Act.
Our leaders know this, but they are choosing not to.