Speeding up deportations will punish many other migrants, anti-racists say
Ministers renew draconian pledge to speed up deportations following Reading terror attack
Home Secretary Priti Patel updates MPs in the House of Commons, London
GOVERNMENT pledges to speed up deportations in light of the Reading terror attack will indirectly punish many other migrants, a prominent anti-racist campaigner told the Morning Star.
Ministers have renewed promises to make it easier to deport immigrants with criminal convictions after it emerged that the suspect of Saturday’s brutal attack in Reading is a Libyan refugee who has served time in jail.
Khairi Saadallah, 25, was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of three people and the injuring of three others at around 7pm on Saturday in a Reading park. Police are treating the incident as a terror attack.
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