ONE of the alleged reasons for ID cards is to flush out illegal immigrants.

Since this Government has already declined to repatriate 50,000 existing illegal immigrants on the grounds that it is too expensive, how many more will it be too expensive to repatriate by the time the expected ten-year period has expired and the cards are supposed to be working?

Martin Cruttwell,

Hamilton House,

Scrayingham, York.

Updated: 10:59 Friday, November 14, 2003