UK: Government Gives Up Looking For 10,000 Missing Migrants.

To search for them would be a “drain on resources”, according to the chief inspector of borders and immigration.

David Bolt said that a further 30,406 failed asylum seekers had been allowed to stay in the country for at least two years even after all their appeal rights had been exhausted.

Mr Bolt’s report [PDF], published yesterday, outlines the scale of the Home Office’s failure to remove illegal migrants and also shows the difficulty authorities have in enforcing immigration rules.