ugh.

How depressing that people actually spend their time (and are paid for) coming up with ideas like this.

The courts do it already with fines and it seems to have increased enforcement rates. I suppose this may remind some people who genuinely forgot their visa date was coming to an end - but it's true it won't stop those who are determined to overstay. It's predictable that the media have focused on this out of a whole range of measures, though.

oh, he is so disgusting, Mr Reid is. Way to criminalise an entire group of people. And to think he used to be a socialist, too. I am so furious with him, Straw, Blair, and the whole LOT OF THEM!

Having successfully morphed into the Tories, for their next trick the Labour party will become the BNP...

The obvious flaw in this plan is that those filthy illegal immigrants don't speak English.

"We are now throwing out more asylum seekers - failed asylum seekers - than ever before."

I like how he corrects himself on that one. Nice guy.

This is what happens when newspapers drive policy. And it nicely distracts everyone from the fact that Rupert Murdoch and his ilk avoid so much tax they could pay for all these supposed loses several times over.

It's just a shame that people keep voting Labour. It has been obvious for years that Reid belongs in the GOP, not Labour.