Britain leads a campaign to deport hundreds of Algerian immigrants from Europe

European judicial reforms will grant the courts in UK and other European countries the authority to issue final decisions in the cases of migration, in order to speed up the process of deporting a large number of migrants to their countries, the British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said on Friday.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the Justice Secretary reveals that a conference will be held in London next April for a European agreement to stop work with procedures that allow foreigners to file lawsuits to the European Court of Human Rights in order to avoid decisions of deportation to their countries of origin.

Mr. Clarke said it was a “nuisance” that people facing deportation from Britain frequently appeal UK court rulings to Strasbourg, allowing them to remain in the country for years while they wait for a European hearing.

“What we are trying to do is get the role of the court sorted out so that it deals with serious human rights issues of the kind that require an international court. We want the court back to its proper business as an international court which takes up serious issues of principle when a member state or its courts, or its parliament, are arguably in serious breach of the European Human Rights convention”, he added.

Britain is currently chairing the European Council, which monitors the European Court, an opportunity taken by London to bring judicial changes. These reforms are expected to have a large impact on dozens of cases filed by Algerians to avoid deportation decisions, especially from France and Britain.

In spite of the lack of accurate statistics on the number of cases filed by Algerians, which are currently at the level of European courts, but the process of settling the situation of Algerian illegal immigrants in the UK, which was launched in 2007, showed that hundreds of files cannot be settled and those illegal immigrants will be deported to Algeria.

According to some British media, Algerians intended to appeal the decisions of deportation using the European court as a last card to delay the process up to 20 years, as confirmed by the Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke.