Great British public to judge immigration appeals in bid to deport bogus asylum seekers - could YOU be one?

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Members of the public are set to be hired to judge immigration appeals to speed up the deportation of bogus asylum seekers.Shabana Mahmood is set to announce plans to recruit hundreds of people to serve as adjudicators in magistrate-style reforms to the appeals process.The Home Secretary will include the changes in the Immigration and Asylum Bill on Tuesday.Illegal migrants will get only one chance to appeal against rejected claims under the new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority (IIAA), which will replace the two tiered-immigration tribunal, behind infamous decisions like that of the "chicken nugget migrant".

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The new authority will be used to identify cases which are in the public interest, including "high-harm" foreign offenders and asylum seekers who make human rights claims which are "clearly without merit".Ms Mahmood said the reforms would help to clear a record backlog of 87,400 asylum cases.But the Conservatives, who ran the Home Office...

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