United Kingdom's Ambassador to Tirana, Alastair King Smith, was summoned a few moments ago to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was handed a note of protest for the statement made two days ago by the Minister of Immigration, Robert Jenrick, who with a language with almost racist tones asked the immigration officers to find and detain the Albanians and then deport them to Tirana. 

The note of protest contains strong doses of concern, the same as the reaction of Minister Olta Xhaçka two days ago. 

"Extremely shocked when I hear a Minister of State responsible for immigration use such language just for a few votes. 'Find the Albanian, stop the Albanian'. A verbal lynching of an entire nation in a language that sounds like the minister is announcing the open season for Albanians just a few weeks after the Joint Communiqué between the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania and that of Great Britain where they appreciated the role of the Albanian diaspora in Britain and its important contribution to the culture, economy and society of both countries. Shameful separation of a community by a minister with democratic principles that brings back terrible memories with unbearable brutality", said Xhaçka. 

Robert Jenrick, Minister of State at the Home Office, placed the emphasis on hunting down Albanian immigrants, detaining them and then deporting them by the UK Border Agency. 

This statement by Minister Jenrick was made at the moment when 43 Albanians, among them illegal immigrants and some others who had finished their sentences in English prisons, were being deported to Tirana.