News New English immigration bill for evicting illegals from rented housing

[Second Summer]

Landlords will be expected to evict tenants who lose the right to live in England under new measures to clamp down on illegal immigration.

They will be able to end tenancies, sometimes without a court order, when asylum requests fail, ministers say.

More: Immigration Bill: Landlords 'must evict' illegal immigrants - BBC News (3. August 2015)

Landlords who repeatedly fail to evict and deny illegal immigrants will face a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison.

Funny how this happened right now, at the same time as the Calais chaos with desperate migrants trying to cross through the channel. (Is France / continental Europe really that bad?)