There's a growing cross party consensus that the UK needs to stop focusing on inhumane, and illegal, proposals, as set out in the #bordersbill. There's no "silver bullet", but offshoring is just abhorrent. 1/
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
I also have concerns about processing applications in embassies, if it is expected that individuals have to have them processed in the country they are being persecuted in, for obvious reasons, but processing them in any embassy might be a start. 2/
As I said, there is no "silver bullet" and these are complex issues, but more viable alternatives in the immediacy would be to remove carrier liability fines and introduce humanitarian visas so people can be immediately brought to the UK to have their claims processed. 3/
For those who are unaware of carrier liability fines, they basically turn cabin crew into de-facto border officers. A carrier, so airlines, ferries, Eurostar etc, can face fines, and even criminal prosecution, for transporting asylum seekers, even unknowingly. 4/
To put this simply, an individual can essentially have all the correct documents, have bought a ticket, passed all the usual checks, boarded a plane, and still be removed if it is thought by cabin crew that they may seek asylum upon landing. 5/
Sort of makes a mockery of the whole "if they were genuine why don't they just fly, catch the ferry etc" arguments you occasionally see from people seeking to penalise those having to use irregular routes, such as small boat channel crossings. 6/

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7 Dec
THREAD: Okay, time for a fun game of "True, False or Disingenuous nonsense". Sharing the original video so you can all play along at home. Isn't this fun? probably not actually. 1/
Going to call disingenuous nonsense on this one, but I'll allow that it is debatable. You could argue that there is a "global migration crisis", highly debatable though. You can't claim a piece of domestic legislation tackles anything on a global scale though. 2/ Image
Definitely disingenuous. Conflict is just one cause for people migrating. For refugees it is often thought as the only cause, but reality is that persecution is actually the main cause, and that does not require conflict. 3/ ImageImage
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6 Dec
Let's not focus on how late to the party OFSTED is and instead welcome the fact they have finally turned up. This has been happening for months. Separated children, including those who have been trafficked, placed at risk and outside legal protection.

thetimes.co.uk/article/5f192b…
The thing is that this is actually a growing issue. The government has said it will make the national transfer scheme mandatory, which would force all local authorities, unless they could give good reason why, to take unaccompanied child refugees.
It has not, however, made any moves to cease the use of hotels. Rather, they have started using more. Often the Home Office will place unaccompanied children in hotels with little to no notice for local authorities, all of which allows them to slip through the cracks.
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A somewhat disingenuous argument from Dan here, but not entirely surprising from someone who seemingly equates arguments which put refugee rights first with "wanting them to drown". The thing is that, if you do want to focus the debate on returns then safe routes benefit you. 1/
First off though, the UK does not have "significant numbers" of asylum claims being rejected. I would firstly argue that you can't have significant numbers of rejections when you don't have significant numbers of applications to start with. 2/
unhcr.org/uk/asylum-in-t…
Even in relation to the relatively low numbers of applications the UK does receive though, it still doesn't have a "significant" number of rejections". IN fact the vast majority of claims are found to be "genuine", either on first instance or appeal. 3/
gov.uk/government/sta…
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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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28 Nov
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.
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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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