Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
(asked on 13th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when section 2 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 will come into force.
This question was answered on 18th September 2023
The Illegal Migration Act received Royal Assent on 20 July 2023.
As is standard practice for any legislation, commencement of wider measures in the Act will take place over the coming months.
We have to take away the incentive for people to jump the queue by coming here illegally – and that is what we are focused on delivering through the Illegal Migration Act to break the cycle and stop people-smuggling gangs.