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AN immigration officer has been sacked after calling North African detainees “donkeys”.

The unnamed man, from the Lindholme removal centre near Doncaster, also made “full animal sounds”, claimed a Home Office report.

Detainees were told “donkeys go back to your country” and “keep the crime in your country”.

Lin Homer, chief executive for the Borders & Immigration Agency, said: “Removing people from the UK, when they have no legal right to be here, is about fairness.

“It’s important to treat those being detained with courtesy and dignity.”