Home Secretary, Suella Braverman proposes a blanket ban on anyone crossing the Channel in small boats from claiming asylum.
People who cross the Channel in small boats will face a ban from claiming asylum in Britain under plans announced by the Home Secretary.
The announcement sparked disgust from campaigners, who labelled it ‘barbaric and unnecessary’ and ‘a blatant breach of the international refugee laws that the UK proudly helped create in the first place’. She added that the law ‘simply isn’t working’, with legislation ‘abused’ by people smugglers and making ‘multiple, meritless and last-minute claims’.
‘So if you deliberately enter the United Kingdom illegally from a safe country, you should be swiftly returned to your home country or relocated to Rwanda. That is where your asylum claim will be considered.’Ms Braverman – who only replaced Priti Patel a month ago – insisted that she would allow ‘the kind of immigration that grows our economy’.‘The Labour Party will try to stop this. The Lib Dems will go bananas. The Guardian will have a meltdown’, she said.
‘Those who have escaped from the worst horrors in this world should not be risking their lives once again simply to claim asylum in the UK. The obvious answer is to give them safe passage. This would break the model of people smugglers and save lives.
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