‘Bad and cynical’ decision making lies behind the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) continued record of losing half of all appeals against orders to remove immigrants and failed asylum seekers, it was alleged today.

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants legal policy director Hina Majid told the Gazette: ‘Our experience of immigration and asylum casework is that we still see a lot of careless, bad and cynical decision making by the UKBA – and the high success rate on appeal is simply consistent with what we see on the ground.’

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