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Removal just the ticket

Jan 22 2006 By Ian Robson, The Sunday Sun

The Bishop of Newcastle has called for more help to be given to the 300 failed asylum seekers in the city.

Very commendable, I'm sure, but it would be just as useful to call on the Government to speed up deportations.

Allowing them to stay while the bureaucrats take up to a year to arrange a one-way ticket home is nothing short of cruelty.

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