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<p>The Home Office makes no apology for deporting Foreign National Offenders; it is
right that we do so.</p><p>This tweet referred to two different groups.</p><p>The
first group were foreign national offenders who broke our laws and abused our values,
who we successfully returned to Lithuania. We are grateful for the ongoing close cooperation
of our Lithuanian partners in tackling crime, and for their specific cooperation in
this instance which was essential for the removal of the foreign national offenders
mentioned in the tweet.</p><p>The second group was made up of migrants from outside
the European Economic Area who had already claimed asylum in Italy, and who we planned
to return under the Dublin Regulation. The Italy leg of the flight did not take place
and our efforts to return those who arrived on small boats via illegally-facilitated
routes were frustrated by legal claims.</p>
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