Ministers in the United Kingdom are planning a mass deportation next week of foreign criminals and migrants who are in the European country illegally.
The operation, involving up to 300 foreign nationals, is believed to be the biggest deportation exercise ever attempted in a day, reports The Daily Mail.
Charter flights booked by the Home Office will depart for Bangladesh, Iraqi Kurdistan and Albania on Tuesday.
Those being deported are being held at immigration removal centres as they wait for their flights.
They have been detained from across the UK by immigration officers over the last month.
Each of them received a Home Office letter last weekend while in detention, with details of their flight.
The deportations come after the Nationality and Borders Bill became law last month, allowing easier removal of those living in the UK illegally, because they are failed asylum seekers, visa overstayers or criminals sentenced to more than a year in prison.
The Home Office on Friday said: “We make no apology for removing foreign criminals and those with no right to be in the UK. This is what the public rightly expects.”
While the department refused to give the details of Tuesday’s flights, the Daily Mail reports that the deportees include Bangladeshis, Iraqi-Kurds and Albanians.
They will be flown, respectively, to their country’s capital cities.
