Priti Patel has announced plans to return ‘foreign criminals and immigration offenders’ to Pakistan.

The Home Secretary wrote on Twitter: ‘I’m proud to have signed a new landmark agreement with our Pakistani friends to return foreign criminals and immigration offenders from the UK to Pakistan.

‘This deal shows our #NewPlanForImmigration in action, as we deliver for the British people.’

Ms Patel met with Pakistan’s interior secretary, Yousaf Naseem Khokhar and the Pakistan high commissioner to the UK, Moazzam Ahmad Khan, to sign the agreement today.

She said in a statement: ‘I make no apology for removing dangerous foreign criminals and immigration offenders who have no right to remain in the UK. 

‘The British public have quite rightly had enough of people abusing our laws and gaming the system so we can’t remove them. 

‘This agreement, which I am proud to have signed with our Pakistani friends, shows the New Plan for Immigration in action and the government delivering.

‘Our new Borders Act will go further and help end the cycle of last-minute claims and appeals that can delay removals.’

The new plan will remove Pakistani nationals with no legal right to remain in the UK, including criminals, failed asylum seekers and immigration offenders, the Home Office told Metro.co.uk.

It comes after the Home Secretary signed new deals with Albania and India last year, Serbia and Nigeria this year.

The UK Government announced their new policy on immigration last year, claiming to be working towards ‘a fair but firm asylum and illegal migration system.’

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