At an average cost of £13,354 per deportation that roughly means that the UK government has spent £1,869,560 in a 10 day period or nearly £10million this year deporting people who will have already served their sentences. 1/ 
If the prison system is so unfit for purpose that the government honestly wants to argue that those who have been through it still pose such a fundamental risk to society that they should be deported then I would suggest that £10million would be better spent reforming it. 2/
And yes I know it will take more than £10million to reform a system which is, objectively speaking, fundamentally broken, but as deportations continue the money which could be used to contribute to that reform is just being wasted. 3/
The problem you have with deportations is that they are either a tacit acknowledgement that the prison system does not do enough to aid rehabilitation, in which case the nationality of the offender is irrelevant, or they are purely a secondary punishment on foreign nationals. 4/
If the argument is the former then the system needs overhauling to ensure that rehabilitation is the primary focus to reduce recidivism rates and keep everyone safer. If it is the second then it's an acknowledgement that the system is discriminatory based on place of birth. 5/
As any functioning legal system needs to be predicated on the basis that the same punishments apply no matter who you are, effectively everyone is treated equally, then applying deportations as a secondary punishment is pretty hard to defend beyond xenophobic arguments imo. 6/
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