New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is settling into the job: laying out her firm no-nonsense approach to migration and ruffling feathers just days into the job after she suggested that some people were abusing the justice system in order to avoid deportation from Britain. Now she has a new challenge on her hands: it transpires that an Afghan refugee is being investigated by the Home Office after he was granted asylum but appeared to go back to his home country on, er, holiday. You couldn’t make it up…
DG Usama came to the UK in April 2022 after crossing the English Channel on a dingy. On arrival, he claimed asylum, telling UK officials that Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was too dangerous to return to. As reported by the Sun, it isn’t quite clear exactly when Usama was granted asylum – but it was before he decided, rather bizarrely, to go back home again on a trip. The Afghan documented his arrival to Britain in pictures, posting videos to social media of him on a small boat before being rescued by RNLI workers. In 2023, he continued to post his time in London, with pictures of him on various landmarks from Tower Bridge to the white cliffs of Dover.
But now his social media presence may have got him into trouble. In 2024, Usama shared six videos from a holiday he took in, um, Afghanistan – including a boat tour in the Band-e-Amir national park in the Hindu Kush mountains. After his holiday, Usama documented his return to the UK – posting a video of himself landing in Dubai before taking a connecting flight. How very interesting…
The Home Office is currently conducting an urgent investigation into Usama – while shadow home secretary Robert Jenrick has fumed:
Illegal migrants like this must be laughing at how naive the government are. He should never have been allowed back into the UK after he apparently holidayed in Afghanistan. If Germany are regularly removing illegal migrants from Afghanistan back home, why aren’t we?
Mr S doubts the Tory MP is the only one thinking that…
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