The Government has spent £80,000 of taxpayers' cash flying Eastern Europeans back to their homelands. Picture shows a policeman escorting a Romanian away from Park Lane The Government has spent £80,000 of taxpayers’ cash flying Eastern European vagrants back to their homelands – only for many to return weeks later. More than 200 people were flown back to Romania and Bulgaria in the first three months of this year – using tickets paid for by the Home Office, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The migrants returned to Eastern Europe after a crackdown ordered by David Cameron on foreign EU nationals begging or sleeping rough in the UK.
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More than 200 people flown back to Romania and Bulgaria in first three months of this year
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The Home Office has spent £80,000 of taxpayers' cash to pay for the tickets
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Now it has emerged deported Romanian beggars are returning using different names
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