From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=002415089200781&rtmo=gwVggrSu&atmo=tttttttd&pg= /et/00/6/23/nkos23.html Via NEWSMAX.COM/UK }}>Begin ISSUE 1855 Friday 23 June 2000 Britain is ready to force out Kosovars By Sandra Laville Deadline that everybody is dreading The family that wants to stay . . . and the family that wishes it had Coastal village faces invasion threat again HUNDREDS of Kosovars who fled to Britain during Nato's war with Serbia and have refused to return are to be repatriated - by force if necessary. Of the 4,500 invited to Britain at the height of the bombing campaign last year, 2,349 are still here. The deadline for them to leave is Sunday. Of those remaining, 1,932 have applied for asylum, on the grounds that they fear political persecution in their homeland, or exceptional leave to remain on humanitarian grounds. Another 417 have yet to declare their intentions and face expulsion. Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, has not explained how they would be deported but has said: "Enforcement action will be taken in due course against those who are unwilling to go back voluntarily." Thousands of Kosovars have been deported by Switzerland, Germany and Australia. Many had to be handcuffed, moved to detention centres, flown to Pristina on commercial flights and left at the airport. By last week, almost 150,000 of those who fled their homes last year were still living abroad. Host countries are pressing them to go home now that the conflict is over. Mr Straw is also hoping to repatriate many of the estimated 25,000 Kosovar Albanians who fled ethnic cleansing before Nato began air raids last April. Ministers argue that those who arrived under the UN evacuation programme did so in the knowledge that their stay would be temporary. Britain took in some 4,500 of the most vulnerable men, women and children fleeing the bombing and the ethnic cleansing by Serbs. Each was given a year's refuge. They were spread throughout Britain. The majority went to the north and London. Flights have been arranged for those who wish to return and who registered for repatriation by June 10. Those returning are given �400 a family, recently increased from �250, to help them to set themselves up again. The g rants run out on Sunday. The Home Office said any who had not claimed asylum or sought legally to remain would be classed as "overstayers" from Monday and liable to deportation. Despite public anxiety about asylum, the Government is unlikely to order an immediate mass deportation. Instead, all the cases will be handed to the Immigration Service's enforcement directorate, which will decide how to proceed. It could order some to be detained if it is feared they may disappear. Overstayers who are not allowed to remain have a right of appeal before removal, though this will not be possible from October under new asylum rules. Ministers say that since Kosovo has been made safe, there is no threat of persecution that would justify political asylum and the cases of those claiming refugee status are undermined by those who have gone home. Barbara Roche, immigration minister, told MPs that enforced removals would be carried out if necessary. However, a cross-party group of MPs which recently visited Kosovo has argued that sending large numbers back would be "damaging and counter-productive". The MPs, Sir Peter Lloyd, Tory, Fareham, Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, and Neil Gerrard, Labour, Walthamstow, support the UN High Commissioner for Refugees view: there is "overwhelming evidence" that large- scale returns would be "destabilising. It is quite clear, if vulnerable people are sent back, the current structures cannot support them". Pamela Coulson, the operations manager for the British Refugee Council, in Leeds, said that only about one in 10 applications from her region for exceptional leave to remain had succeeded. The council is making representations to the Home Secretary to prevent forced repatriation. 11 June 2000: Home Office: we have lost 2,500 Kosovars 18 April 2000: Straw to send 3,000 Kosovo refugees home 26 March 2000: 3,000 Kosovars to seek asylum 11 July 1999: Kosovars set to fly home 23 June 1999: Britain lays plans for repatriation of Kosovars 26 April 1999: [International] Smiles and tears as first refugees fly into Britain � Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2000. 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