UK immigration enforcement end of their sentence between 1999 and 2006 without deportation consideration having been completed. By May, it was confirmed that 880 of the cases had been considered for deportation but it was too little too late and the Home Secretary Charles Clarke resigned. On 23 May 2006 the new Home Secretary John Reid stated to the Home Affairs Committee: In the aftermath of the scandal the trigger point at which foreign nationals would be considered for deportation was reduced from two years imprisonment to twelve months and plans were put in place to introduce "automatic deportation". Following an investigation into
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Rahmatullah the British government should have tried harder to secure Yunus Rahmatullah's release. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Rahmatullah Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Yunus Rahmatullah "[2012] UKSC 48" was a 2012 judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom concerning the detention of Yunus Rahmatullah, a Pakistani citizen detained in Iraq, and later Afghanistan, who is alleged to have travelled to Iraq to fight for Al-Qaeda during the Second Iraq War. Yunus Rahmatullah is a Pakistani citizen who was suspected of having travelled to Iraq to become a fighter for Al-Qaeda.