UK Border Agency to be scrapped

The UK Border Agency is to be abolished with its work returning to the Home Office, Theresa May has announced.

The home secretary told MPs "its performance was not good enough".

The UK Border Agency was formed in 2008 as an arms-length agency of the Home Office but Mrs May said this had led to a "secretive culture".

It will now be split into parts focusing on the visa system and on immigration law enforcement. Both parts will report directly to ministers.

Ever since it was set up the Border Agency has been a mess and while this decision makes complete sense, a much bigger question arises.

The Border Agency has failed to fulfil the role it was given, question is shouldn’t the government set up a proper body and give it the necessary powers to do the job of organising the immigration system properly?