More than 40 Albanian criminals and migrants who tried to enter Britain by boat have arrived back in their home country after being deported from the UK, according to reports.
A Home Office removal flight containing 42 people was seen landing at Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa in the Albanian capital, after leaving the UK earlier today, MailOnline reported.
A source from the department told the newssite: “These Albanian criminals are back where they belong – in their home country. They committed serious crimes in the UK and therefore have no right to remain here. The government makes no apologies for their removal.
“We will continue to crack down on foreign criminals and those who should no longer be here.”
Rishi Sunak said last week it was his intention to return Albanian asylum seekers to their home country.
More than 10,000 Albanians have arrived in small boats over the English channel to seek asylum this year, making up nearly a quarter of the record 44,000 people who made the dangerous journey across the busy waterway on small boats and made it to the UK.
More than half of Albanian asylum claims in the UK were granted in the year up to September, a Home Office minister told parliament last week.
Analysis from the Oxford Migration Observatory reveals that 86 per cent of Albanians who received positive decisions on asylum applications in the year to June 2022 were women, whose leave to remain was granted on the basis that they were likely to have been trafficked and in genuine need of protection.
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