Migrants get up to £2000 on bankcard after prison sentences

✅ 1. Cost-effectiveness
Deporting someone forcibly is very expensive — it involves:

• Legal processes (appeals, tribunals, etc.)
• Detention before removal (costly to house and guard)
• Escorts during travel
• Coordination with foreign governments

In contrast, voluntary return is significantly cheaper. A one-off payment or travel assistance can save the government tens of thousands of pounds per case.

✅ 2.Legal and human rights obligations
The UK, like all countries, is bound by human rights laws (such as the European Convention on Human Rights). This means:

• You can’t just deport someone without due process
• You can’t deport people to countries where they face a real risk of torture, death, or persecution
• You have to offer alternatives when forced removal is not viable

Voluntary return schemes help the UK stay within legal boundaries while still encouraging people to leave.

Source: ChatGPT. And it’s correct.

It doesn't work like that. The facilitated removal scheme (which is what this is) is only available after serving a sentence of 12 months to 4 years. Nobody is coming here and purposely committing crime and spending at least a year in prison to take £2k home.

And there is a re-entry ban.

“Nothing to see here” is insightful as that’s exactly what the focus on this trivia is - a bait and switch distraction for the serious issues in our society…let’s blame the few strangers rather than fixing the big problems …millions is nothing in comparison to what isn’t being paid to build our state services…but you keep looking at the little guy as the root of all our problems 🤦‍♀️ nothing to see here as you say

A one off payment of £2k is going to be much cheaper than paying their rent and bills I guess.

Eh? What are you on about. I said it isn’t easy and, if it were, it would be happening already. To edit, I don’t mean that I agree with removing asylum seekers if their claims are upheld and we need migrants to run out services. There needs to be managed migration, our birth rate is falling.

Just to agree last time I was in hospital the carers and many other staff holding things together were Romanian, Phillipino, African etc..…amazing over qualified people doing care work 12 hour shifts to care beautifully for very vulnerable people ( I was the ward baby with a severely broken leg)..the NHS would collapse without them and don’t mention community carers ..that’s even more reliant on leave to remain

OP it is the voluntary ones who get the £2000, the others don’t get anything!
People are never satisfied are they? We don’t want them here deport them, and shouting because deporting people costs money!
The detail says that compared to fighting the deportation in the courts, or keeping people in prison £2k is nothing.

OP, why are you acting like this is new news? The Facilitated Return Scheme has been operating since 2006!

It works out much cheaper to send the criminals back with a couple of grand, plus they will never be allowed to re-enter the UK.

They can’t be “dealt with” by their own country if they’re here, can they?

Farage talks through his arse. You watched that news story, it was incredibly difficult and expensive to deport these criminals and yet he thinks he can ship out every asylum seeker and immigrant. It would cost the country billions and eat up all the money you say should be going to services like health and education. If it was easy to do governments would have done it already.

It’s just a pathetic distraction for people who can’t see the bigger picture of where money is really being extracted from our society. Very sad really as they will only make their own situations worse.

You do know that reform would get rid of the NHS if they get in right?

Fuck sake.

Go and put some flags up.

Clearly op thinks we should tar feather and maybe burn them?

You know what else is disgusting? Putting illegals up in hotels whilst British homeless sleep on the streets.

if they could come up with a solution to housing illegals, why couldn’t they come up with the same solution to getting British homeless off the streets? Why were hotels not used for them?

I think the poster is assuming you think reform are the solution. Reform who have explicitly stated they'd remove right to remain (which would impact law abiding carers) and who have certainly talked about health insurance being the answer.

But you could just be genuinely frustrated and looking for answers.

Nothing about minor crimes, these are men who have committed serious crimes. £2,000 to get rid of them permanently is a price well paid. If they don’t get the money they will find every legal chance to prolong their stay which just costs the country more money.

YANBU OP. Why the frig do we give money away like this?! They wouldn’t get a crumb off me. Yes we are absolute first rate mugs. It doesn’t matter what it would have cost if they were here. They shouldn’t bloody be here in the first place!!