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Jeremy Corbyn Attacks Boris Johnson's Plan To Deport Criminal Immigrants

Keneci Channel.

UK Labor Party socialist Leader Jeremy Corbyn in a heated Prime Minister's Questions exchange, slammed Prime Minster Boris Johnson's attempt to deport criminal immigrants.

Government this week deported more than a dozen criminal immigrants back to Jamaica, as part of a plan to deport most of the immigrants convicted of serious crimes.

The Labor leader charged that the decision is racist and hypocritical, referring to the Prime Minister's birth in the United States and past confession of bad conduct. He asked the Prime Minister, 'If there was a case of a young white boy with blond hair who later dabbled in class A drugs and conspired with a friend to beat up a journalist, would he deport that boy, or is it one rule for young black boys from the Caribbean and another for white boys from the United States?'

The question drew a sharp reaction from the Prime Minister. He shot back 'I think quite frankly that Mr Corbyn demeans himself."

The PM continued, "And by the way [Jeremy Corbyn] besmirches the reputation of the Windrush generation who came to this country to work in our public services, to teach our children in this country, to make lives better for people in this country. He has no right to conflate them with those foreign national offenders that we are deporting today."

The flight to jamaica was supposed to carry 50 serious criminals but ended up leaving with just 17 after successful legal intervention by activists.