#Sunak: I can’t be sure #mallBoats will be stopped before election

#PM calls fulfilling #ChannelCrossings pledge ‘complicated’ in wide-ranging ConservativeHome interview
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/13/rishi-sunak-small-boats-channel-crossings-pledge-conservativehome-interview
#ToryBacksliding #ToryIncompetence #ToryPoliciesInAction

The Green Party has offered a solution to the dangerous boat crossings that so many asylum charities have been calling on for years – safe, legal routes to claim asylum in the UK. Its immigration policy affirms the right of asylum seekers to claim protection over any right of the state to exclude aliens.
The Green Party offering the truly humanitarian option.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/03/07/channel-crossings-government-whipping-up-hatred-with-unworkable-asylum-plans/
#RefugeesWelcome #Brexit #Asylum #Immigration #People #ChannelCrossings

Forty-three times the #Conservatives tried (and failed) to tackle #ChannelCrossings -

#ToryIncompetence
#Asylum #ToryPoliciesInAction
#Inhumanity
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/07/conservatives-channel-crossings-small-boats-tories-rwanda-deportation

#RishiSunak’s plan for small boats ‘will lock up people fleeing #war’ -

Prime minister’s proposed legislation aimed at stopping #ChannelCrossings branded ‘a joke’ by a former minister
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/05/rishi-sunaks-plan-for-small-boats-will-lock-up-people-fleeing-war
#ToryIncompetence #Asylum

‘Unworkable’ asylum plans backed by Suella Braverman are ‘completely out of step with British values’, refugee charity warns | The Independent
#Braverman
#ChannelCrossings
#AsylumSeekers

The home secretary says she will do ‘whatever it takes’ to stop Channel crossings

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/asylum-channel-suella-braverman-refugees-b2238690.html

Fraction of migrants charged under Patel’s law to criminalise Channel crossings | The Independent
#ChannelCrossings
#PatelsLaw
#Patel
#ChannelCrossingProsecutions

Exclusive: Home Office figures show 60 prosecutions for illegally arriving in British waters while almost 30,000 made journey

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/channel-crossings-migrants-prosecutions-patel-b2234561.html

Sickening even if not widespread:
"Child asylum seekers say UK officials pressed them to lie about their age

Exclusive: Boy recorded telling guard he was told he could move from Manston holding centre more quickly if he said he was over 18"

Via the Guardian

The repercussions for being classed as an adult refugees are massive.
#ChannelCrossings
#asylum
#refugees
#ukpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/01/child-asylum-seekers-say-uk-officials-pressed-them-to-lie-about-their-age?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#UkPolitics
#caricatures
#HomeSecretary
#SuellaBraverman
#PrivateEmails
#ChannelCrossings