Go home if you commit a crime as long as it's not serious !!

Memo sparks foreign prisoner row

Ministers have pledged to deport 4,000 foreign criminals this year

Gordon Brown is under fire over a prison service memo revealing officials have "no interest" in deporting foreign criminals jailed for less than a year.

The UK's head of immigration Lin Homer said staff were committed to sending home all overseas offenders, whether they are dangerous or not.

But the Tories say the memo, sent to prison governors, is at odds with the PM's pledge to expel foreign criminals.

More than 11,000 of the 81,000 prison population are foreign nationals.

The prime minister promised to strengthen measures to deport foreign national criminals in his speech to Labour's annual conference in September.

He told The Times newspaper he wanted a "far tougher line" on foreign offenders.

He said: "I want a message to go out - if you come here to work you learn the language; if you commit a crime you will deported from our country."

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