In response to the Prime Ministers announcement on proposed modifications to the asylum system, Tim Naor Hilton, Chief Government of Refugee Motion, stated:
“That is yet one more shameful day within the Authorities’s therapy of individuals fleeing struggle and persecution.
“New legal guidelines to ban individuals who haven’t any different alternative than to cross the Channel from claiming asylum are unbelievably callous and imply refugees attempting to achieve household right here might be deported again to hazard.
“In the meantime Ministers stay unable to decide to creating protected routes – a transfer that might finish most small boat crossings in a single day.
“Adjustments to anti-slavery steering and deporting individuals based mostly on sweeping and incorrect assumptions about their nationality will imply many victims and refugees danger additional hazard and exploitation.
“And it beggar’s perception that the Authorities continues to be intent on opening new shared lodging centres in after the deadly disaster at Manston, for which there has nonetheless been no pledge of an inquiry.
“Most of those modifications are merciless, ineffective and illegal and can do nothing to repair the actual issues within the system. They’ll as an alternative trigger distress for hundreds of already traumatised individuals.”
