Britain may be stuck with a gun-toting Channel migrant due to human rights laws, it was feared last night.
Palestinian Abu Wadee – who called for ‘death to all Jews’ – is in custody following his arrest on Sunday night, three days after crossing from France in an inflatable dinghy.
But the Home Office’s own guidelines effectively prevent people being sent back to war-ravaged Gaza, raising concerns Wadee will be allowed to stay in Britain.
News of his arrest was welcomed by MPs and Jewish groups last night, after The Mail on Sunday exposed him as a former key member of amilitant group that terrorised Israel, recorded a video in which he prayed for Allah to ‘punish [Jews] completely’, and uploaded images of himself with automatic weapons on social media.
But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp warned: ‘I am concerned this despicable man will make spurious human rights or other claims to try to stay in the UK – which weak immigration judges are all too likely to accept, based on past form.
‘I commend the Mail and Mail on Sunday for exposing this appalling man, and prompting the Government to act.
‘But it is not good enough that it requires media coverage to make this weak Government take action to protect us.
‘I am glad the authorities have tracked him down, but he should never have been able to get here in the first place.
Palestinian Abu Wadee (pictured) – who called for ‘death to all Jews’ – is in custody following his arrest on Sunday night, three days after crossing from France in an inflatable dinghy
Wadee was last night charged with knowingly arriving into the UK without leave, and will appear before Manchester magistrates tomorrow
The Home Office ’s own guidelines effectively prevent people being sent back to war-ravaged Gaza , raising concerns Wadee will be allowed to stay in Britain
’Mr Philp accused Sir Keir Starmer of operating an ‘open-borders policy’ allowing ‘extremists to enter our country at will’.
He said the Tories wanted to disapply human rights laws in immigration cases, making it harder for criminals to cite ‘spurious’ reasons for being granted permission to stay.
Wadee, who is in his 30s, was held by immigration enforcement officers on Sunday night on suspicion of illegally entering the country.
Officials would not disclose whether he was held in a processing centre or had been moved into a migrant hotel.
Wadee, also known as Mosab Abdulkarim al-Gassas, was last night charged with knowingly arriving into the UK without leave, and will appear before Manchester magistrates tomorrow.
Yet he could seek to stay in the UK as the Home Office’s guidelines state returning anyone to war-ravaged Gaza risks exposing them to ‘serious harm’ because conditions there ‘amount to torture or inhumane or degrading treatment’, under the European Convention on Human Rights.
It follows a series of staggering cases, including an Albanian criminal who was allowed to remain in Britain in part because his son was better accustomed to British chicken nuggets compared with foreign food.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said it should not have taken so long for authorities to arrest Wadee, adding that it was ‘an appalling prospect’ that he could seek to stay in the UK.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp (pictured) warned that the ‘despicable’ Wadee could try to stay in the UK under human rights laws
The migrant has filmed himself chanting about killing Jews
Wadee is seen here posing with two assault rifles in front of a Palestine flag
Wadee is understood to have landed in the UK last Thursday before uploading a video of himself and others on a dinghy in the Channel being approached by a Border Force boat, with the caption: ‘Thank God, we arrived in Britain.
’He charted his journey across Europe to his 170,000 TikTok followers, with some videos being viewed more than 2.5 million times.
But his account on the social media platform was taken down yesterday and listed as ‘banned’, after an investigation unearthed his extremist history.
It included images of him brandishing assault rifles, and another in which he appeared to hold a tear-gas canister in his mouth during apparent clashes at the border with Israel.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said: ‘It is evident that he poses a threat to the safety of the Jewish community and to the British public more widely.
Clearly he should not be at liberty in the UK. We are now asking the Home Office to confirm that this case will be expedited and we are seeking assurances on the anticipated timeframes.’
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘The public can be reassured that we take all steps necessary at all times to protect the nation’s security.’
