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Dan Sohege 🧡

Nov 29, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

Thread: Without formal returns agreements with those "safe countries" this is meaningless. You cannot "return" anyone to a country which hasn't agreed to take them. The end result therefore is leaving asylum seekers in limbo for even longer. 1/ #r4today

thetimes.co.uk/article/791fea…

Now, ironically, the UK does have an agreement with Albania, but calling it a "safe country" is stretching the definition to breaking point, particularly in relation to the protection of trafficking victims. 2/
state.gov/reports/2022-t…

Pretty certain something has changed in UK's relationship with neighbouring countries since the last Labour Government. Ah, yes, that's it, it left the EU, which means it left the Dublin Regulations, which had formalized mechanisms for returning people. 3/
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

The principle of the "safe country" designation has been condemned already in the past by UNHCR as incompatible with international law, not least ways because you cannot guarantee that a country while safe for many is safe for all. 4/
unhcr.org/excom/scip/3ae…

And safety is most definitely not predicated on whether the state is or is not the one conducting the persecution directly. If there are good reasons to feel the state cannot provide protection, such as corruption, then someone can still seek asylum. 5/
unhcr.org/1951-refugee-c…

All of this is publicly available information. It hasn't been hidden away so that journalists can't find it. It would be really helpful if the media stopped just reporting Home Office press releases as if they were the word of God and actually applied some critical thinking. 6/

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THREAD: The thing about asylum policies is they do need to be practical. No-one who is serious about this disagrees. There's a lot of posturing and grand standing, by all parties, but at the end of the day people do want to see channel crossings reduced and sensible policies. 1/

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I have, technically, been on annual leave this week, which just means being stuck in my own head and worrying about work ahead of going back next week. So let's have a little dive into being #ActuallyAutistic and being unable to switch off, along with a couple of other things. 1/

First and foremost, the next person to tell me I should "just switch off" will likely cop some harsh words. Why do people say that? Do they think that they are suggesting something which no-one ever thought of before? 2/

If I could switch off I would. It isn't an option for me though, and, yes, I've tried a lot of different techniques. Part of it is worry, part having an ingrained dislike of people making decisions about me without talking to me, which does seem to happen a lot when I am off. 3/

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I'm begging @UKLabour to shelve the rhetoric of "our cruelty will be more competent" on asylum. Anyone who knows enough about this subject to comment knows returns just create a cycle of exploitation and harsher border policies force more people into irregular routes. 1/ #r4today

Instead of criticising @Conservatives for incompetence, @UKLabour should be focused on their inhumanity. All the evidence shows that if you want to reduce people using irregular routes, and thereby tackle gangs, you need to make it safer and simpler for people to seek asylum. 2/

As someone can only seek asylum once in the UK, that means things like removing carrier liability fines, which prevent people from being able to fly in, use a ferry etc, and therefore force them into having to rely on gangs. 3/

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This government has been warned repeatedly about this. More than a year ago we were seeing children being actively mis-aged by the Home Office. They know they're putting chicken at risk. You have to be supremely twisted to support that. #r4today. 1/
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…

Do some adults try and pretend to be children? Yes, some do. There's no denying that, but they form a minority. When people quote "age discrepancy" statistics etc, what they tend to miss out is that children are far more likely to be treated as adults than the other way round. 2/

Oh for sure, you have the numbnuts who post a picture of someone with a beard and scream "ARE THEY A CHILD", ignoring quite spectacularly the evidence which shows that you often just can't tell by looking, or behaviour. 3/

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In the meantime, because this isn't heading into the realms of farcical enough, the Minister for Immigration who championed the first deal which would break international law has now quit because the deal to allow the first to happen didn't break enough international laws. 2/

I do wonder why the UK isn't seen as a serious state anymore. It is a mystery. 3/

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