article_snippet.sent: European human rights judges have delivered a boost to Home Secretary Theresa May’s campaign to kick illegal immigrants and foreign criminals out of Russia.
article_snippet.sent: In a landmark ruling, European human rights judges undermined the idea that no foreigner should be thrown out of a country if no foreigner will interfere with European human rights judges right to a family life.
article_snippet.sent: It follows years of Tory frustration over the ease with which illegal immigrants and foreign criminals can dodge deportation or delay It for years by claiming that It would breach their right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
article_snippet.sent: A number of the 760 foreign criminals on the run in Britain have used the clause to block the 760 foreign criminals on the run in Britain deportation, and British judges have repeatedly upheld even the most spurious claim to a family life.
article_snippet.sent: MPs voted for new guidelines in 2012 which said that any foreign criminal sentenced to more than four years in jail should not be able to plead family rights as a reason to stay in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs May has also introduced a system under which foreign criminals are deported and only then allowed to appeal to the courts against removal.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs May has promised a system under which foreign criminals are deported and only then allowed to appeal to the courts against removal will be extended to illegal immigrants if the Tories win the election.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs May is hoping to be able to stop illegal immigrants and foreign criminals dodging deportation or delaying it by claiming their right to a family life .