Deported Albanian drug dealer who returned illegally can stay in UK.

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1. Deportation orders need to be final, this guy got released from prison on the basis he agreed to the deportation order, he reentered and the courts backed him because of his marriage to a British Greek national and then still broke the law, now is in prison and it’s still unclear whether he will be deported.

   It feels as though the system allows endless opportunities for someone to gain residency even after breaking the law and having a deportation order against them.

2. Of course, what the Telegraph clickbait headline fails to point out is that all this happened under a Conservative government, and while the Home Office appealed, the government chose not to amend the law for such cases.

   And the headline leaves out the rather important point, that following another conviction, he is now likely to be deported to Albania.

3. Sorry.. why is this a national news headline? Also he can’t stay after being convicted again of something else he’ll be deported again. What a nothingburger

4. This looks like another UK Government screw-up, appealing a case they should never have brought in the first place.

   The guy was given a 9-month sentence for drug manufacturing (not serious enough for automatic deportation at the time), of which he served one before agreeing to leave the country.

   He then came back, applied for residency under EU rules and got married (to an EU national).

   The Government tried to refuse that on the basis that he was a “genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat” to the public, but I’m not surprised that a nine-month sentence for (likely) helping grow some weed didn’t amount to that (as we’ve seen in other cases).

   > Ziu was, at the time of the appeal, facing trial for drug producing and dealing… Ziu was convicted in November and jailed for four-and-a-half years for two counts of conspiring to supply Class B drugs.

   The then Government’s main screw-up here seems to be that they tried to get him deported *before* the new conviction. And due to Theresa May’s silly rules limiting the powers of immigration tribunals, they couldn’t factor that into the case. A Four-and-a-half year sentence switches things from “Government has to prove he is dangerous” to “he has to prove he isn’t,” so it should be much easier for the new Government to deport him, once he has served enough of his sentence.

5. A typical Telegraph story, with a misleading headline, and burying or omitting relevant facts.

6. This is what is angering the general population. Too soft on crime and immigration.

7. Our country is being destroyed from within

   I’m convinced these decisions are being made bolster reform support.

8. Oh look.

   Another Telegraph article, which again hides the facts behind the rage baiting headline, fails to mention was on the Tories watch not Labour, but facts don’t matter instead we need the most baiting headline possible to get the bots going.

9. People are so quick to defend organized criminals playing the system.

10. Can they not add a common sense clause to address stuff like this?

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