Disaster for Theresa May as legal ruling brings student deportations to a halt
By Ian Dunt
Wednesday, 23 March 2016 11:37 AM
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The ruling could hardly be more damning. It found Theresa May deported thousands of students from Britain on the basis of unscientific hearsay evidence. The Home Office behaved like a tin-pot dictatorship: detaining innocent people, accusing them of made-up charges without providing anything to back it up, denying them their day in court and then deporting them.
Today's ruling could open the doors to the return of thousands of students to the UK, if – of course - they wish to come back to a country which has treated them so appallingly. And it brings to a shuddering halt Theresa May's mass deportation programme of students. It also raises serious questions about the legal and operational functions – as well as the basic morality – of the Home Office.
Without due process: How Politics.co.uk first reported the story
The story starts on February 10th 2014. That evening, Panorama broadcast a programme on fraudulent language tests being taken at a single school in east London. The language tests are part of a system requiring immigrant students to prove their English is up to the required standard.
The Home Office response was extraordinary. Instead of treating this as evidence of cheating in one school, it claimed that everyone who had taken the TOEIC test, written and conducted by American firm ETS, had committed fraud...
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