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Month: June 2023

Around 24,000 asylum seekers threatened with deportation to Rwanda

June 30, 2023 / , ,
24,083 asylum seekers were threatened with forcible removal to Rwanda between January 2021 and March 2023, according to Home Office data obtained through an FOI request. These “letters of intent”
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Rwanda unsafe for refugees, Court of Appeal rules.

June 30, 2023 / ,
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Rwanda is not a “safe place” to send asylum seekers. Two of the three judges have concluded that Rwanda’s practice of frequently returning
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House of Lords speaks out for refugees and asylum seekers

June 30, 2023 /
The House of Lords has voted in favour of four amendments to the Illegal Migration bill that would strengthen the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.   Baroness Chakrabarti’s amendment
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Rwanda deportations will cost £169,000 per person, and safe routes at risk

June 26, 2023 /
Suella Braverman has announced that deporting a refugee to Rwanda will cost £169,000 per person . The scheme will only make savings on the current costs of housing migrants if
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A warm welcome for refugees- a Dorset campaigner speaks to Radio Solent.

June 24, 2023 / ,
Safe Passage campaigner Judith Williams has described the warm welcome given to the Ukrainian family she hosts. She also described the many Dorset initiatives to support refugees, including by the
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Two-tier refugee system dropped to clear backlog.

June 24, 2023 /
The government has dropped a two-tier system that made refugees arriving by irregular means, such as small boats, inadmissible for permanent asylum. The move is to speed up the processing
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Official data contradicts claim that many adult male asylum seekers pretend to be children

June 24, 2023 /
Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, has claimed in parliament that up to a fifth of male asylum seekers pretend to be children when they arrive in the UK. However, the
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Ask your MP to support Lord Dubs’ amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill

June 2, 2023 /
Lord Alf Dubs, himself a former child refugee who arrived in Britain via the Kindertransport, has tabled two important amendments which soften the cruelty of the original bill. The amendments
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Immigration minister ignores church leaders’ call for new safe routes

June 2, 2023 / ,
Robert Jenrick, the Immigration Minister, has disregarded the call for more safe routes for refugees by 1500 church leaders.  In his response, (see link below), he doubles down on the
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Further information and support:

June 2, 2023 /
For further information and support, try these websites: https://care4calais.org/ https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk https://refugee-action.org.uk Safe Passage is concerned with refugee and asylum-seeking children: https://safepassage.org.uk The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network: https://qarn.org.uk There are
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