The SUN: IT will take 37 YEARS to clear a new backlog of half a million immigration cases, MPs reveal today.
The Home Affairs Select Committee said it is “staggering” that 502,462 applications are still outstanding.
The devastating verdict comes in an inquiry into the failed UK Border Agency, which has now been scrapped and broken up.
The scandal plunges border bosses back to the dark days of the 1990s when a secret backlog of 460,500 asylum cases built up.
The number of foreign offenders living in the UK awaiting deportation also rose last year to 4,102, the committee discovered. Home Secretary Theresa May was warned her intervention may just be a “rebranding” unless she gets to grips with border control.
Committee chairman Keith Vaz MP said: “Theresa May described the UK Border Agency as ‘closed, secretive and defensive’ — however despite abolition nothing appears to have changed apart from the name.”
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