30th March 2023
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Quite rightly, the treatment of UK immigrants and asylum seekers is back in the news. There’s a lot to say about the UK government’s handling of these delicate policy issues, some of which I’ve touched upon at New Thinking in recent months.
So much is wrong with the current, and proposed, system. But within that context, there is also a lot of misinformation about numbers, motivations, impact on local communities and responses from international bodies.
It’s important to remember the distinction between immigration and asylum, too, as future articles on this blog will make clear. This is an article I wrote in late 2022, which discussed home secretary Suella Braverman’s ambitious and controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Note the prediction at the end of the article, btw: it’s now April 2023, and the UK has still not sent a single asylum seeker to Rwanda. The Court of Appeal beckons.
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