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28 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What is needed is cooperation to ensure asylum seekers are provide with safer and simpler access to asylum systems in the countries they feel safe in, not ones chosen for them by others. I suspect this is not the type of cooperation which either the EU or Patel have in mind. Image
Call me picky, but I'm not sure I entirely trust countries which have left people to freeze on borders, engaged in illegal pushbacks, funded camps elsewhere where people are sold into slavery and prosecuted those who try and provide aid with putting needs of asylum seekers first.
I am also absolutely certain that Patel being or not being there makes absolutely no difference. We know her "solutions" will only cost more lives, benefit traffickers and violate international law, but they play well to a small base of xenophobes.
Thing is though, EU is no better on the whole. Patel is modelling her policies on one's EU countries already implement. Unless they are going to stop repeating the same mistakes and start focusing on inclusion and safety over exclusion and deterrence then more people will die.

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29 Nov
Once again EU, and UK, treats coordination in terms of a security issue needing them to "strengthen borders". We are seeing deaths all along the border because of the controls already in place. We need to be looking at policies of inclusion and exclusion. #r4today
Id cards are liable to have no impact as a pull factor for those who cross channel. People aren't risking their lives in order to be exploited, which as banned from working while asylum application is processed is what happens, when they are allowed to work in France et al.
As per usual, and this is as much the case with France and the rest of the EU, evidence and facts don't make a difference. Instead states focus on pandering to voters and in so doing demonising asylum seekers. Developed nations as a whole take a fraction of global asylum seekers.
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27 Nov
THREAD: Okay, because I am in a generous and helpful mood, or just hungover it's hard to tell, here's a quick thread on some of the legal instruments we would need to leave to fulfil some Tory MP's wet dream of denying everyone asylum. 1/
The Human Rights Act, a favourite of likes of Secretary of State for Justice @DominicRaab. The reason for removing it, ostensibly, is because it incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights, and who doesn't want to get rid of fundamental rights 1/
legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/…
Which nicely brings us to the ECHR, because who needs human rights after all. This is actually a lot more limited than its critics make out, but it does prevent you sending someone to a country where they can be tortured, which is just not on obviously. 2/
echr.coe.int/documents/conv…
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27 Nov
There is a growing discourse about whether saying we should not use the term "migrant" for those crossing the channel creates a "Good/Bad immigrant" narrative. I have to say, while I understand the argument, I entirely disagree. 1/

Anyone who moves from their place of birth is, technically, a migrant. They have "migrated". The name "Sohege" is hardly a traditional British one. My family history is replete with people who have moved from their countries of origin. "Migrant" is a catch all term. 2/
The problem when we are using it in relation to those crossing the channel is it conflates the "immigration system" with the "asylum system", leading to such arguments as "queue jumpers" and people asking why they don't just "get a visa" 3/
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27 Nov
"Hi, my name is Matthew Parris and I am such a liberal that refugees can die somewhere else because frankly they are too poor and foreign for me to care about."
The premise of @MatthewParris3's column appears to be that the public are so against asylum seekers that even "liberals" should get on the bandwagon of undermining the entire international refugee regime. thetimes.co.uk/article/234a0a…
There's nothing "liberal" about abandoning people or trying to make out the relatively tiny number of asylum seekers the UK takes is a "problem". There is definitely nothing "moral" @MatthewParris3 about calling for the main legal protection of vulnerable people to be removed.
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26 Nov
Not going to break down the full article by @davidbarrett , because sometimes there is just too much nonsense to even engage with. Let's look at the headline alone though. 1/
Asylum seekers receive approximately £36.93, with possible adjustments for certain circumstances. Now, first off, I guarantee you no-one is risking their life for that. It's also less than they would receive in France for example though. 2/
domasile.info/en/what-social…
It is also not "cash". It is paid through what is known as an ASPEN card, which aside from being used to track asylum seekers also has caused significant issues with people attempting to buy such luxuries as food to survive on. 3/
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/j…
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25 Nov
Deep breath. Okay, let's run through why this is not the case one more time. Let's say that somehow the planets all align correctly and somehow the government gets a joint returns agreement with a country which takes roughly three times the number of asylum seekers already. 1/
First off, let's quickly clear up the difference between "trafficking" and "smuggling", because this is actually quite important, particularly in regards to people's motivations for coming to the UK, or non-motivations as the case may be. 2/
You see, people who are trafficked may not know where they are going to end up. Actually that can be the case for those who are smuggled as well, just not necessarily to the same extent. that means that "deterrents" are actually pretty irrelevant in these cases. 3/
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