The Government's scheme to crack down on boats crossing the Channel will 'play into the hands of exploitative networks', advocates claim
is expected to unveil new plans to crack down on people arriving to the UK in small boats on Tuesday, making their asylum claims inadmissible.
Kurdish-Iranian Behrouz Boochani, who was locked up in an Australian offshore detention centre for six years, called the plans a “violation of human rights” that would do little to stop traffickers from pursuing their illegal activities. Mr Boochani, who since his release in 2019 has become a prominent journalist and asylum rights activist, told: “I don’t think this will have an effect on them [traffickers] because we are talking about a huge industry.
“Also there are thousands and thousands of refugees who are looking for safety and that is the main issue.”programme that the plans would not halt the crossings and that it was “actually going to be the converse”.“What it actually does is fuel the service, if you like, that the criminals provide,” said Ms Moreton, from the Immigration Services Union.
Caitlin Boswell, policy and advocacy manager for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants , toldthe reported plans are “just one in a long line of senseless and morally depraved proposals which have only played into the hands of exploitative networks”.was announced, the number of treacherous journeys here has only increased,” Ms Boswell said.
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