Get it Right Sunshine.

In the Groan:

Muslims who preach hate
are to be deported and subject to new restrictions, Charles Clarke
announced in the Commons on Wednesday.

Errr, no. British citizens cannot be deported. That’s against various Human Rights treaties, UN agreements, accords and so on. You cannot be thrown out of your own country.

You can be extradited, yes, but that’s rather different, being sent somewhere elsefor trial, but you cannot be thrown out for something you did here.

If you are not a British citizen, then you can be thrown out, in certain circumstances, and there is even the possibility, if you have become a British citizen, of that being revoked, but someone who has citizenship as of right (like by being born here, you know, being British, whatever the colour of skin or religious affiliation or, even, status as convicted bloodthirsty murderer) cannot be thrown out.

Not one of the most important things ever really, but worthwhile to note. No, Muslims who preach hate will not and cannot be deported, only that subsection of that group that are not British citizens can be and thus might be.

One response

  1. Er, on the ” but you cannot be thrown out for something you did here” front, didn’t Boris Johnson write about some bankers who were accused of defrauding someone or something while in this country, but because they did it remotely (via the webs) were up for extradition to the US?
    The Spectator piece is in the subscribers only archive, but I found an extract here after a quick Google.
    Tim adds: I knowthe case. That’s the new extradition act. Extradition, not deportation.
    Sorry, being pedantic, I know.

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