#Arendt is right. The right to asylum is the fundamental human right. It is the right to have rights. Why? Because the refugee is the one who is outside of any community, any system of protection. She has no standing and thus no rights. Asylum brings that person in. It gives her back her standing. It protects her. It gives her back her rights.

This right is no longer available in the UK thanks to the #IllegalImmigrationAct

@immigration

Rishi Sunak has quietly dropped a key plank of last year’s asylum law that introduced a two-tier refugee system, and which made lives tougher for tens of thousands of people who arrived in the UK via small boats.

Basically, the government has conceded its policies are increasing the backlog of asylum applications and are unworkable. It will benefit over 50,000 asylum seekers.

#Refugees #AsylumSeekers #IllegalImmigrationAct
#NationalityAndBordersAct
#UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/08/key-plank-of-new-uk-asylum-law-dropped-to-cut-backlog

"When significant resources are directed towards scapegoating and punishing those whose rights have been taken away by a government, the result is a country where everyone’s rights are by extension removed. Disagreement is turned at once into dissidence."

Another spot-on column from Nesrine Malik

#IllegalImmigrationAct #Immigration #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #UKPolitics #Fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/20/gary-lineker-culture-war-government-cruelty-migrants-rights

#PMQs

Stephen Flynn points out the enormous problem of the #IllegalImmigrationAct and its withholding of protection via modern slavery laws. He explains to the HoC that women who are sex-trafficked won't receive any assistance whatsoever.