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Home secretary plans to change law so grooming gang leader can be deported

A week after the leader of the Rochdale grooming gang was released from prison, the home secretary is due to set out plans to change the UK’s Immigration Act, which prevented Shabir Ahmed from being d

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my son who is english and a lecturer at university,, applied for a job at michigan university,, then passed the interview then donald trump applied visa stoppage,, but we carry on letting these criminals in,, they are dodging their own laws by getting here , but of course our government for some reason cant see this,
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It is absolutely shocking to realize how history treated these children, and we seriously need to question why it took until 2003 for UK law to change—and why authorities still turned a blind eye for over a decade after that.

Before the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the UK legal system actually criminalised child victims of trafficking and exploitation instead of protecting them. Vulnerable children forced into commercial exploitation were arrested for "soliciting," while the exploiters got away with it.

Even after the law technically changed in 2003, institutional blindness and a pervasive societal denial of child abuse allowed this state failure to continue. Major public inquiries have since proven that specific warnings and explicit reports given to the police and local councils between 2003 and 2011 were buried, ignored, or dismissed by authorities to protect institutional reputations and avoid accountability.

Instead of treating these young people as victims, government systems still looked the other way, treating them as "delinquents" who brought it on themselves.

It is deeply disturbing that it took decades of catastrophic failures for UK la
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@RazX-z8x From YouTube ↗ 11 Jul 2026 6
Sir Akbar is spot on.
This appears to be blackmailed by Pakistani Army generals 😮
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250,000 victims. Enough is enough.
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He must be deported and never allowed back
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What about all the other perpetrators and the communities who knew and abetted them? These people need to go for the good of everyone.
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@mta5926 From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 5
Bring back death penalty 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽
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On behalf of all Pakistani women, i request uk government to give this monster life imprisonment please
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If it can't be deported then it should not be released and should have to serve every single second of it's sentence
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With the benefit of the hindsight, I sincerely hope that lessons will be learned from this terrible tragedy
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@JP318 From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 10
And he will come back to the uk with in a month on the rubber dingley from France saying he's fleeing prosecution from Pakistan 🤦🤷
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Deported before he tells all the names in the establishment that enabled him…
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He was sentenced to 41 years.
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He should still be in jail
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Why is he free?
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@ash-e5f5n From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 65
14 years 30 rape insane that should be instant death sentence
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So they can change the law to get this vile man deported but can’t change the law to deport small boat migrants ?? 🤔
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The guy should be arrested again if his risk to the society. 😊
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No more visas issused to Pakistani citizens.
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He never mentioned his 2nd conviction which he got away with 20+ years also, got away scot free