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

The Nationality and Borders Act - which came into effect yesterday is another vile piece of legislation dragged through our parliament by this right-wing tory government. Read Glen Black's article for @thecanaryuk here - https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/01/30/new-laws-coming-into-effect-today-will-target-victims-of-modern-slavery/ #NationalityAndBordersAct #UKLegislation #UKLaw #ModernSlavery #Refugees #RefugeesWelcome

@daveunderwood Same when they pass new laws to make their future immoral actions legal… like the #UK #NationalityAndBordersAct

@politico_eu_bot Dubious argument for the right of Europe to sustain its #privilege while insisting that deterrence efforts are to ‘end the suffering’ of asylum seekers in Europe. The same type of argument, designed to maintain #WhiteInnocence, was used to pass the 2022 #NationalityAndBordersAct in #UK which criminalises irregular arrivals. Apparently to save #AsylumSeekers from suffering we needed to 1)redefine them as criminals 2)imprison them, 3)send them to #Rwanda . Stranger than fiction.