“Migration Watch” the immigration don’t-think tank lying about immigration law again. +
https://twitter.com/migrationwatch/status/1463577043761868804
Lie 1: Immigration Act 1971 makes it “illegal to come to the UK without permission”
Straight up lie. There’s nothing in that Act which says that. Migration Watch don’t even point to a section that does. +
Straight up lie. There’s nothing in that Act which says that. Migration Watch don’t even point to a section that does. +
Lie 2: Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004 makes it illegal to seek asylum without identity documentation. Of course it doesn’t. Section 3(4) (c) makes it a defence to have a reasonable excuse for not having one +
(d) makes it a defence to produce a false immigration document and to prove that you used that document as an immigration document for all purposes in connection with his journey to the United Kingdom +
(e) makes it a defence to prove that you travelled to the United Kingdom without, at any stage since you set out on the journey, having possession of an immigration document.
It’s right there in the 2004 Act. 
Here are the *Home Office* examples of a reasonable excuse for not having a travel document
Here’s the book we (Doughty Street barristers) wrote about the 2004 Act when it came out. Take a break from lying, @migrationwatch and read it. It’s only £5.99.
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