“Dear Home Office, you’ve told me I’ll be sent back to France.
Here’s why you’ve got no chance of doing that.”
A Facts4EU guide on how to beat the system if you’re detained and they try to deport you
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We reveal why an Air France flight departed yesterday with at least two empty seats you paid for
At the end of last week, the Government was proudly announcing the first illegal boat migrants would be deported back to France on flights starting yesterday (Monday, 15 Sept 2025). An Air France flight sat on the tarmac, with seats ready for passengers, most going willingly but at least one less so. Boarding completed, it departed for France with at least two empty seats – one for an illegal migrant and one for an accompanying officer acting for the Home Office.
Despite nearly six weeks of delay after Sir Keir’s infamous “One in, one out” deal with President Macron came into force with much fanfare, not one single illegal migrant has been returned. Below we remind readers of the promises.
“These small boats crossings are utterly unacceptable and the vile people smugglers behind them are wreaking havoc on our borders. Thanks to our deal with France, people crossing in small boats can now be detained and removed to France and I expect the first returns to take place imminently.”
- Shabana Mahmood, Home Secretary, 07 Sept 2025
In detention and been given a deportation letter? No problem, use this easy guide to staying in Britain
- Did you arrive more than 14 days before receiving the letter? If so, write and tell them, and insist you be released.
- If you received the letter within 14 days, contact one of the many free legal advice organisations listed below.
- If you don’t yet have a lawyer, just send the following reply to the Home Office within 7 days:
Dear Home Office,
I have been detained and I have received a letter from the Home Office that says I may be removed to France. I do not have a legal representative who can help me and I urgently need expert legal advice so that I can respond to the letter which raises difficult legal issues. I therefore ask that you give me an extension of time so that I can find a lawyer to help me.
Please note that (tick any that apply):
- I have previously suffered torture or inhuman treatment
- I have been trafficked to the UK
- I have mental health problems
- I have physical health problems
- I have family in the UK (add names and relationships):
I therefore need legal advice to make submissions to the Home Office. In these circumstances and because my removal is not imminent, I also ask that I am released on bail. If this is refused, I ask that reasons be given to me now to explain why I am being detained.
I have also asked a charity to help me to find a lawyer urgently. The organisation is [ENTER NAME OF ORGANISATION] and their contact details are [ENTER CONTACT DETAILS].
Yours faithfully,
[NAME],
[HOME OFFICE REFERENCE NUMBER]
There, that was easy, wasn’t it?
You can download that template free off the Internet courtesy of ‘Bail for Immigration Detainees’ by clicking here. [Link not provided by Facts4EU.] Now the next thing to do is contact one of the many charities and do-gooder organisations which provide free lawyers to get you out of detention and off the Home Office’s “to be deported” list.
You might have heard that the majority of the British people are strongly against allowing people like you into their country. Don’t worry. There is a very small minority of British people who have decided to make sure we have open borders and let anyone in.
It’s possible that you were a bit naughty in your home country, but that’s okay because the Home Office will probably never find out, particularly after you accidentally lost your identity papers. Or perhaps during your boat trip across the Channel you caught a cold, or as we call it: “a chronic respiratory condition”? Maybe you’re worried about being deported? That could easily be the signs of an “aggravated anxiety disorder” or maybe even “a chronic adrenal dysfunction”. Your free lawyer will adviser you on all of these things.
Below is a list of some of the organisations who are very happy to help you. [Links not provided by Facts4EU.]
To find a lawyer:
- Detention Action
- Association of Visitors in Detention
- JRS UK
- Women for Refugee Women
- Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group
- SOAS detainee Support
- Beyond Detention
Medical organisation that may be able to provide help:
- Medical Justice
Immigration and Asylum Lawyers and legal representatives that may be able to help:
- Asylum Aid
- Duncan Lewis solicitors
- Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
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On a serious note, let’s imagine a flight takes off today
If the Home Office does manage to deport a migrant today, it will of course make the news. In reality it would be an appalling indictment of the Government’s policies, including the immediate cancellation of the Rwanda Scheme just as it was about to start. These legal problems could possibly have been resolved over a year ago. Even if they are able to deport 10 migrants a day for the rest of this week, it would make absolutely no difference to the UK’s net migration figures, as they will all be replaced by migrants France doesn’t want, but who have not made the Channel crossing.
In this unlikely scenario, 40 migrants this week would be less than 0.13% of the total number of illegal boat migrants who have crossed the Channel this year, on Labour’s watch. As of Friday (13 Sept), 31,027 illegal migrants had crossed the Channel in small boats, up from 22,440 for the same period last year (2024). That represents an increase of nearly 40%.
Observations
The simple fact remains that while British courts continue to entertain all manner of arguments from immigration lawyers, and whose judges appear to be scared of any judgment they make being challenged by the ECtHR, the Home Office is going to find it difficult to deport a sufficient number of migrants for this to represent any form of deterrent, as they have claimed all along.
The answer is very clearly that complete overhaul of the legal system is required, as laid out in Suella Braverman’s recent paper for Legatum which our colleagues at Stand for Our Sovereignty published, as well as full and precisely worded Acts of Parliament to back this, as repeatedly advocated by Sir Bill Cash, as we have also reported. With Reform UK now promising that migrants will start being deported within two weeks of taking office, it will be interesting to see how this will be done but we imagine the decision has been made to let the necessary legislation follow.
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[ Sources: The Home Office, Aug-Sept 2025 | Bail for Immigration Detainees ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.
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