UK: Manhunt for 14 immigrant criminal escapees

August 06, 2007 12:00am
Agence France-Presse

BRITISH authorities are still hunting for 14 illegal immigrants, all convicted criminals, who escaped from a detention centre at the weekend.

Twenty-six men fled the Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre in Oxfordshire, southern England, on Saturday after detainees started fires and broke out ...

The Home Office, which is looking at tightening up immigration rules, estimates that there are about 430,000 irregular migrants in Britain but accepts the figure could be as high as 570,000.

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