If that's true, then it's criminal. Can't imagine UK government taking that sort of risk. Still, not really seeing it. Read a little; saw that all immigrants are detained, if even briefly, to be processed. Also read negative things about the poor condition of the detainment centers. Also read about immigrants who are jailed for crimes, then the government failed to deport them at the end of their sentence. Also read about a couple of immigrants who won a lawsuit for being detained too long...remembering six weeks; that may be wrong but it wasn't very long. Though didn't see anything about laws on the length of detaining immigrants. In the US it's a three month limit to either sort thing out or deport, otherwise they must be released.