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An Eritrean man has successfully halted his removal from the UK to France through a last-minute legal bid. The 25-year-old, who arrived via small boat, was scheduled for return under the "one in, one out" agreement between the UK and France. This represents the first legal challenge to the recently initiated pilot scheme.

 

The High Court in London heard arguments from the man's lawyers, claiming he needed additional time to provide evidence suggesting he may have been a victim of modern slavery. They argued that the Home Office's decision to remove him was premature. The court's injunction has sparked concerns that other migrants may use similar arguments to delay their relocation under the same deal.

 

The Home Office lawyers contended that the man could have sought asylum in France. They cautioned that postponing his departure could prompt others on the return flight list to file similar claims, potentially undermining efforts to deter dangerous small boat crossings. However, it was disclosed during the hearing that despite the Home Office's refusal of his slavery claim, he was entitled to make further representations, which could not effectively be made from France.

 

Mr Justice Sheldon, while dismissing the man's concerns about homelessness in France, acknowledged there was substantial ground for examining the trafficking claim further. He noted that an unresolved suspicion of trafficking constitutes a legal barrier to immediate removal.

 

The court has given the man's legal team a 14-day timeframe to make additional representations to facilitate a future hearing. This ruling may affect talks on migrant treatment and rights in the "one in, one out" system.

 

 

Key Takeaways:

 

• An Eritrean man's removal to France has been blocked over trafficking claims.
• The decision raises questions about the impact on the "one in, one out" scheme.
• The High Court sets a 14-day deadline for further legal representations.

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4 hours ago, webfact said:

An Eritrean man has successfully halted his removal from the UK to France through a last-minute legal bid. The 25-year-old, who arrived via small boat, was scheduled for return under the "one in, one out" agreement between the UK and France. This represents the first legal challenge to the recently initiated pilot scheme.

 

Since the July announcement of the historic UK - France returns deal

 

5700 have arrived, 0 have been returned.

 

One could reasonably expect

 

1. That a Human Rights Lawyer, Former DPP and Head of the CPS, and now ( dead man walking ) PM

 

2. And  a Human Rights Lawyer, and now Attorney General.

 

Would be able to come up with a deal that was immune from legal challenges.

 

A pair of useless, spineless, sad, sorry excuses, for human beings.

Typical of the UK Government, could organize a piss up in a brewery. How much did all this cost the taxpayer!

Everyone could see that this "one in one out" nonsense was a dog and pony show. Lip service. 

 

Starmer couldn't organize a prayer in a mosque. 😄

The lawyers representing these illegals are laughing all the way to the bank.

The Labour Party immigration policy is a shambles costing the British taxpayer a fortune 

Time for 2 Tier kier and his Labour party to depart before they Bankrupt the UK 

4 hours ago, giddyup said:

The lawyers representing these illegals are laughing all the way to the bank.

 

4 hours ago, giddyup said:

The lawyers representing these illegals are laughing all the way to the bank.

Yes, and it’s the tax payers who is paying for these parasitic lawyers, including those sponsored by the home office.

An very typical UK story nowadays. Looking forward to the follow up story where we get to hear how much taxpayers are paying to fund his legal aid funded human rights lawyers for his appeal against deportation on the basis that Egypt are a bit mean to terrorists.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15108555/Egyptian-illegal-migrant-raped-woman-Hyde-Park-terror-Turkey.html

Give it a year or two and even the Brits will wish they had their own version of the Trump/Homan team.

1 hour ago, impulse said:

Give it a year or two and even the Brits will wish they had their own version of the Trump/Homan team.

There is a world of difference between returning these fake asylum seekers ( male, young, economic migrants) and the sort of racially profiling, family smashing, cruel distopian campaign against  undocumented but otherwise often productive taxpaying and law-abiding members of society being mounted by Miller and Hogan.

Tragic comedy of errors !

3 hours ago, impulse said:

Give it a year or two and even the Brits will wish they had their own version of the Trump/Homan team.

 

That's not nearly radical enough.

8 hours ago, JAG said:

There is a world of difference between returning these fake asylum seekers ( male, young, economic migrants) and the sort of racially profiling, family smashing, cruel distopian campaign against  undocumented but otherwise often productive taxpaying and law-abiding members of society being mounted by Miller and Hogan.

 

Sure there is.

 

11 hours ago, JAG said:

cruel distopian campaign against  undocumented but otherwise often productive taxpaying and law-abiding members of society being mounted by Miller and Hogan.

 

Struggling to get my head around this.

 

If people are arriving illegally and are undocumented.

 

How can they be law abiding, productive, taxpaying members of society ?

 

If they are undocumented, they cannot have an SSN and therefore cannot work legally.

36 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

 

Struggling to get my head around this.

 

If people are arriving illegally and are undocumented.

 

How can they be law abiding, productive, taxpaying members of society ?

 

If they are undocumented, they cannot have an SSN and therefore cannot work legally.

I agree that it is strange - bizarre even but apparently they can and do.

 

According to "Reuters Fact Check":

"Besides U.S. citizens and nationals, noncitizens, who are lawfully present in the U.S. can obtain a Social Security Number, opens new tab (SSN), which is just one type of Taxpayer Identification Number, (TIN) that can be used to file taxes.

Individuals who are ineligible for an SSN, such as immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally and not authorized to work, can apply for an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) regardless of their immigration status, according to the IRS.

 

An ITIN can only be used for federal tax purposes and does not grant work authorization, change immigration status or provide social security benefits, the IRS page says.

Some undocumented workers obtain jobs by using fake or borrowed SSNs and pay into, opens new tab Social Security without receiving benefits.

Undocumented immigrants paid nearly $97 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, according to a July 2024 report,  by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which used data on taxpayers with ITINs to estimate tax revenue.

 

The ITEP report said undocumented immigrants contributed $59.4 billion to the federal government, including payments for federal income tax and federal social insurance such as Social Security, Medicare and Unemployment Insurance.

An estimated 8.7 million of the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally in 2022 were of prime working age, according to a 2024 U.S. Department of Homeland Security report."

 

$59.4 billion is quite a lot of tax money though.

 

What they can't do, although they may "pay in" is claim any benefits.

On 9/18/2025 at 2:33 AM, JonnyF said:

Everyone could see that this "one in one out" nonsense was a dog and pony show. Lip service. 

 

Starmer couldn't organize a prayer in a mosque. 😄

 

 

The one in one out is meant to be a part of a broader measure of treaties. The uganda policy might have helped too. 

 

If they are not going to break treaties - the only way they will be able to do this is to go hardcore industrial scale at processing the claims in days, and stream line the appeal process. 

 

The problem will be they will most likely most to stay. 

 

BUT IN SAYING ALL THIS - this is only 30,000 people. It's not going to effect anyones life in the UK. It's been politicied. If your life in the UK is crap, it it will still be crap if you stop them all. Go protest about the rise in energy bills, banks, City OF London bonuses, government waste, etc 

 

But you can't explain this to racists. 

On 9/17/2025 at 4:58 AM, The Cyclist said:

 

 

5700 have arrived, 0 have been returned.

 

 

 

 

 

How has the 5700 arriving effected your life? 

 

 

6 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

BUT IN SAYING ALL THIS - this is only 30,000 people. It's not going to effect anyones life in the UK.

 

Except the children being sexually abused by them of course.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3w04jwjzo

 

 

But hey, who cares about kids being sexually abused. Especially when it gives the lefties an excuse to shout RACIST. 

 

8 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

But you can't explain this to racists. 

 

😃

Still doesn't make sense

 

1 hour ago, JAG said:

Individuals who are ineligible for an SSN, such as immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally and not authorized to work, can apply for an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) regardless of their immigration status, according to the IRS.

 

Why would anyone, who is illegal and not authorized to work, apply for any sort of SSN, ITIN ?
 

The ITEP report does not appear to make much sense.

 

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The ITEP report said undocumented immigrants contributed $59.4 billion to the federal government, including payments for federal income tax and federal social insurance such as Social Security, Medicare and Unemployment Insurance.

 

That is a lot of tax dollars, from people who, apparently 

 

1 hour ago, JAG said:

What they can't do, although they may "pay in" is claim any benefits.

 

 

1 hour ago, JAG said:

Some undocumented workers obtain jobs by using fake or borrowed SSNs

 

Lawbreakers, in other words.

 

The ITEP report needs treated with a large salt mine.

13 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

 

 

How has the 5700 arriving effected your life? 

 

 

 

My income tax and National Insurance contributions are being wasted.

 

But I wouldn't really expect someone, who comes out with this, to know any better.

 

16 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

The uganda policy might have helped too. 

 

Care to elaborate on this secret Uganda Policy ?
 

Or would you prefer to slink away quietly, after making a fool of yourself ?

17 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Except the children being sexually abused by them of course.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3w04jwjzo

 

 

But hey, who cares about kids being sexually abused. Especially when it gives the lefties an excuse to shout RACIST. 

 

 

😃

 

 

Some 90% of the rapist in UK jails are white men. Why are you only concerned by the rapes carried by immigrants ? Do those other women not matter? 

13 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

 

My income tax and National Insurance contributions are being wasted.

 

But I wouldn't really expect someone, who comes out with this, to know any better.

 

 

 

Working out the sums, let's say you were on average UK salary of circa £38,000. Your tax money towards the whole volume of people seeking asylum last year was somewhere around 75p to £1.20 a year. 

 

Don't try and pontificate what is just racism by these far right thugs. 

 

Get a grip.

1 hour ago, DonniePeverley said:

Don't try and pontificate what is just racism by these far right thugs. 

 

Do be quiet

 

Contrary your amazing stupid belief, everything does not equate to racism.

 

The Tens of Thousands flocking over the Channel, are not a race, therefore no racism involved.

 

So take your " Ists " and " Isms " and poke where the sun don't shine.

1 hour ago, DonniePeverley said:

Some 90% of the rapist in UK jails are white men.

 

Stop race baiting. What has race got to do with this? Furthermore, you made that statistic up since they stopped publishing the figures re. ethnicity over a decade ago. 😃

 

1 hour ago, DonniePeverley said:

Why are you only concerned by the rapes carried by immigrants ? Do those other women not matter? 

 

A poor attempt at deflection. 😃

 

This thread is about illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants are not supposed to be here, the clue is in the word ILLEGAL. Many of them are raping children.

 

Illegal immigrants need to be deported irrespective of the colour of their skin. White, black, brown, yellow. Doesn't matter. Deport them. 

1 hour ago, DonniePeverley said:

Working out the sums, let's say you were on average UK salary of circa £38,000. Your tax money towards the whole volume of people seeking asylum last year was somewhere around 75p to £1.20 a year. 

 

Tell that to the parents of the girls they sexually assaulted.

 

"At least the sexual assault didn't cost you much".

 

I wouldn't stand too near the father when you do this. 

4 hours ago, The Cyclist said:

Why would anyone, who is illegal and not authorized to work, apply for any sort of SSN, ITIN ?

 

Because at least in the past it was the case that even if you were illegal, you could get an taxpayer ID number and be eligible for the earned income tax credit, which really wasn't a "credit" so much as a direct payout. Not to mention most filers would not make enough to pay any tax any way.

4 hours ago, The Cyclist said:

Still doesn't make sense

 

 

Why would anyone, who is illegal and not authorized to work, apply for any sort of SSN, ITIN ?
 

The ITEP report does not appear to make much sense.

 

 

That is a lot of tax dollars, from people who, apparently 

 

 

 

 

Lawbreakers, in other words.

 

The ITEP report needs treated with a large salt mine.

I quoted the ITEP report because it was one of the first items thrown up by a Google search; said Google search threw up many, many references to, accounts of and explanations why undocumented migrants are often paying taxes.

 

I think that you need to take into account that the bulk of these people are not slinking around the underbelly of US society but living normal lives, in paid employment and on conventional payrolls. Many of them are in the process of attempting to regularise their immigration status, which is why the various courts and immigration offices are such a happy hunting ground for ICE. One of the more bizarre features of the whole business is how Honan's ad hoc militias are actually disrupting those processes.

 

That aside, my basic point remains, the undocumented migrant community in the USA is a very different matter to the young male "faux" asylum seekers who are swamping, and being allowed, almost perhaps encouraged to bypass the UK's immigration system, and unlike the USA's migrants are being being so generously funded and treated by our government!

26 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Because at least in the past it was the case that even if you were illegal, you could get an taxpayer ID number and be eligible for the earned income tax credit, which really wasn't a "credit" so much as a direct payout. Not to mention most filers would not make enough to pay any tax any way.

 

I hope you can understand the mentalism at play here.

18 minutes ago, JAG said:

I think that you need to take into account that the bulk of these people are not slinking around the underbelly of US society but living normal lives, in paid employment and on conventional payrolls.

 

Sure, I got the drift of that from the ITEP report.

 

What I will never get, is why Illegals, undocumented migrants, and any other ragtag can be on conventional payrolls.

 

Perhaps why an estimated 8 - 15 million illegals entered the US under the Biden administration.

 

But this is about the UK.

 

The Eritrean in the OP was removed from the UK this morning.

 

Which gives us a grand total of  2 out and an estimated 400 crossing the Channel right now.

Is it safe to assume that the Eritrean gentleman's legal team is working pro bono as he has no money?

May we assume the lawyers are true blue Brits? What is happening?