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Backlash over immigrant advert

Human rights group Liberty has hit back at the government's scheme to encourage overstaying migrants to "go home" with its own alternative spin on the message. Home Office ads were carried by vans in six London boroughs.

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Illegal immigrants encouraged to return home

Illegal immigrants are being encouraged to volunteer to return home, under a new pilot scheme.

Posters will show residents how many arrests have been made, and display a text message so that migrants can contact authorities. But, if they fail to come forward, the softly-softly approach will be backed up by police raids, as Phil Bayles reports:

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