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Asylum plans ‘shows how low this Government is prepared to stoop’

“Cruel asylum plans” would stop people fleeing persecution from seeking sanctuary in the UK.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-05-12 10:12
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Plans to toughen up the UK’s asylum system have been condemned by the United Nations, campaign groups and opposition MPs.

Boris Johnson said the plans set out in the Queen’s Speech would “help crack down on the criminal gangs” behind “illegal entry into the UK”.

The forthcoming “new plan for immigration” legislation amounts to the most significant overhaul of the system in decades and means people who have travelled through a “safe country” such as France or Belgium to reach Britain will not be admitted into the UK system.

For the first time the way people entered the UK – either through legal or irregular means – will have an impact on how their claim progresses.

The UN’s refugee agency has demanded a rethink of the plans.

Human rights lawyer Shoaib M Khan Tweeted: “Not a single European country has decided to support the UK government’s controversial asylum plans, with the UN on Saturday night criticising the proposals as so damaging they risked Britain’s “global credibility”.”

Not a single European country has decided to support the UK government’s controversial asylum plans, with the UN on Saturday night criticising the proposals as so damaging they risked Britain’s “global credibility”.https://t.co/WO9AG1HBhF

— Shoaib M Khan (@ShoaibMKhan) May 9, 2021

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The UNHCR acknowledged the UK’s right to control its borders, and the need for improvements in the system.

But this “must remain consistent with the right to seek and enjoy asylum”.

They tweeted: “Proposals by the UK to overhaul its asylum system risk breaching international legal commitments, undermining global refugee cooperation and triggering damaging effects on asylum-seekers who arrive irregularly.”

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Proposals by the UK to overhaul its asylum system risk breaching international legal commitments, undermining global refugee cooperation and triggering damaging effects on asylum-seekers who arrive irregularly.

UNHCR urges rethink on UK #asylum proposals.https://t.co/yoRZiGUJOJ pic.twitter.com/dxVU3ulyLH

— UNHCR United Kingdom (@UNHCRUK) May 10, 2021

The agency warned that expecting refugees to seek asylum in the first safe country would overwhelm gateway countries and see the UK “turn its back” on commitments made at UN General Assembly, and through the Global Compact on Refugees.

“We’re ready to work with the UK on alternative reforms,” a spokesman said.

Amnesty UK Tweeted: ““These plans threaten to create a discriminatory two-tier asylum system, undermining the 1951 Refugee Convention and longstanding global co-operation on refugee issues,” said Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor, the UNHCR’s representative in the UK.”

“These plans threaten to create a discriminatory two-tier asylum system, undermining the 1951 Refugee Convention and longstanding global co-operation on refugee issues,” said Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor, the UNHCR’s representative in the UK.https://t.co/CC2Sc0qlyC

— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) May 10, 2021

Proud British citizens

Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, condemned the “cruel and unfair approach”.

“Providing protection for people uprooted by war and conflict and in need of safety, regardless of how they manage to reach our shores, is a hugely important part of who we are as a nation,” Mr Solomon said.

“We have a long tradition of providing protection for people who have gone on to become proud British citizens, contributing as doctors, nurses and entrepreneurs to our communities.

“Through its new immigration bill, this government is seeking to undermine this vital commitment by unjustly differentiating between refugees based on how they arrived here.”

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the “cruel asylum plans” would stop people fleeing persecution from seeking sanctuary in the UK.

Green MP Caroline Lucas said: “Targeting desperate people who are putting their lives at risk in the hope of finding sanctuary shows how low this Government is prepared to stoop.”

She Tweeted: “Plans to stop people crossing Channel in small boats from claiming asylum are cruel & unworkable   They break UK’s refugee commitments, rely on 3rd country deals which don’t exist & will push desperate people to look for even more dangerous routes to seek sanctuary.”

Plans to stop people crossing Channel in small boats from claiming asylum are cruel & unworkable

They break UK's refugee commitments, rely on 3rd country deals which don’t exist & will push desperate people to look for even more dangerous routes to seek sanctuary #QueensSpeech

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) May 11, 2021

The Government said the current asylum system was costing taxpayers more than £1 billion a year and in 2019 around 62% of asylum claimants to the UK had entered the country illegally.

The promised legislation is aimed at deterring illegal entry and “breaking the business model of criminal trafficking networks”.

The new laws would make it easier to remove people with no right to be in the UK.

Officials said the plan would increase the “fairness and efficacy” of the system to “better protect and support those in genuine need of asylum”.

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