Britain cracks down on illegal immigrants

Under the proposals for landlords in England, the UK Home Office would issue a notice when an asylum application fails that confirms the tenant no longer has the right to rent property.

The announcement by Clark, who will also announce new measures to prevent rogue landlords renting out sub-standard properties, comes as May and foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, prepare to take it turns chairing meetings of the government’s emergency Cobra committee in response to the Calais crisis.

The new rules will be applicable only in England and the government will provide the landlords means to end occupancy once the tenant crosses the date of legal stay in the country, the Department for Communities and Local Government said in the statement, according to Bloomberg.

Forthcoming legislation will create a blacklist of persistent rogue landlords and letting agents, helping councils to focus their enforcement action on where it is most needed, and keeping track of those who have been convicted of housing offences. The Immigration Bill, shortly to be presented in Parliament is intended to make it more hard for migrants to live in Britain if they have been rejected for asylum or their visa has expired.

Mr Lambert told Radio 4 the possible five-year prison penalty for renting to illegal immigrants was “quite surprising and had come nearly out of the blue”.

The crisis has dominated the news bulletins in Britain over the past week, and in recent days, the British government has been stepping up its rhetoric, hoping to send a message that life here will not be easy for those who hoping to slip past border controls.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Theresa May, Britain’s Home Secretary, and her French counterpart, Bernard Cazeneuve, sought to counter the view that Britain is the land of milk and money. The government, however, is determined to show migrants wishing to live in Britain, that the “streets are not paved with gold.”

Since December, landlords or property managers and representatives over these parts have already been obliged to examine moving performance totally modern person tenants, sub-tenants and lodgers getting into new tenancies to evaluate should they have directly to keep inside of the UK.

This will trigger a power for landlords to end the tenancy, without a court order in some circumstances.

NEW rules leaving landlords facing five years in jail for housing illegal immigrants could leave legitimate asylum seekers homeless, it has been claimed.

‘The proposals also build upon the Right to Rent checks as imposed by the Immigration Act 2014, which we expect to be rolled out nationally following a pilot scheme in the West Midlands.