A source close to Home Secretary Suella Braverman said electronic tagging was already being done
The Home Office is considering fitting asylum seekers arriving in the UK via unauthorised means with electronic tags, it has been reported.
The Times said officials are mulling it as a way to prevent migrants who cannot be housed in limited detention sites from absconding. The Illegal Migration Act places a legal duty on the Government to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, either to Rwanda or another “safe” third country.
However, as spaces in Home Office accommodation are in short supply, officials have been tasked with a “deep dive” into alternatives, according to the newspaper. While the preferred solution is to increase the number of detention places, electronic tagging has been mooted, as has cutting off financial allowances to someone who fails to report regularly to the Home Office, the Times cited a source from the department as saying.
Asked whether tagging is under consideration, a source close to Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: “We already do it.” Home Office data this week showed Channel crossings topped 19,000 for the year so far, despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge that he will “stop the boats”.
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