Libya reportedly deported thousands of illegal entrants in 2007 without giving them the opportunity to apply for asylum.

The unit was to develop essential expertise in bringing prosecutions against those people smuggling illegal entrants.

Although it defined what an illegal entrant was, it did not provide sufficient clarity as to how the law should be applied.

However, absence of a passport is not in itself sufficient grounds for dealing with a person as an illegal entrant.

The powers to remove illegal entrants are found in paragraphs 9 or 10 of schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971.

Technically I was an illegal entrant, without a dime's worth of per capita paid and with nothing to pay it with.

The Government seems more concerned, however, with deterring illegal entrants.

He can appeal the charge that he was an illegal entrant, but only after deportation.

In the first two months of this year, 210,352 illegal entrants were caught, against 190,833 in the same period last year.

The idea was that it would be easier to capture illegal entrants in the wide open deserts than through the urban alleyways.