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For roughly £20 million the Home Office could've cleared the asylum backlog it created, reducing associated costs such as hotels. Instead it plans to pay nearly £10 billion on a policy which appears specifically designed to fail. #r4today 1/
thetimes.co.uk/article/4c2cf7…
thetimes.co.uk/article/4c2cf7…
The #IllegalBill, can only put more people at risk, including tens of thousands of children. It denies modern slavery victims protection, boosting gang control, and removes human rights from the most vulnerable, as well as sees children risk deportation 2/
theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…
theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…
The government's own figures show that, despite rhetoric of the likes of Braverman, the vast majority of those seeking asylum in the UK, by any means, receive it because they need it. Data also shows how few comparatively to likes of France etc UK takes 3/
It’s 2024. Exhausted, traumatised, aching and lonely, you’ve just arrived in the UK hoping to claim asylum.
What happens now? 1/thread
What happens now? 1/thread
Let’s say you lived in a country where people are imprisoned, or even lynched, for being gay. Let’s say you ran a little bar where LGBT+ people like you can meet, discreetly of course. You passed on some of the profits to the local police so they turned a blind eye. 2/
Until one day they didn’t. The police turned up in force, dragged you out of the bar and beat you senseless in front of your neighbours.
When you woke up you were shackled in a stinking, overcrowded cell in the city’s main prison. 3/
When you woke up you were shackled in a stinking, overcrowded cell in the city’s main prison. 3/
