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Immigration minister ignores church leaders’ call for new safe routes

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:

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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Why do refugees risk their lives in small boats? The British Red Cross explains.

Facts about Channel crossings and why people make them There are a lot of misconceptions about why men, women and children risk their lives crossing the Channel in the hopes
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Let asylum seekers work to help themselves and the UK

A letter to the Guardian spells out the simple answer to issues with refugee accommodation. “The list of suggested alternatives to hotels for asylum seekers (Boats, barges and big bills
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500 refugees to be housed on Dorset barge, despite local protests

The Government has announced plans to house about 500 male migrants on a barge moored off the Isle of Portland in Dorset. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/05/anger-at-plan-to-house-asylum-seekers-on-barge-off-dorset-portland The three-storey Bibby Stockholm will be cheaper
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Legal experts cast doubt on any possible weakening of EHCR rules

According to the Guardian, lawyers are sceptical that ECHR rules will be changed to accommodate the Government’s Rwanda policy. During a recent visit to the country’s capital, Kigali, Suella Braverman
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A letter to your MP

Safe Passage has suggested this template for writing to MPs. Obviously, you are free to add your own concerns. “I am deeply worried by the Home Secretary and Prime Minister’s
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Young Albanian asylum seekers are often trafficking victims or at risk from blood feuds

Former barrister David Neale, who has worked closely with refugee Albanian boys and young men, refutes the Home Office idea that these young people do not need protection. He writes
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Supporting asylum seekers after the Knowsley riots- suggestions from Refugee Action

The events in Knowsley last Friday night were horrific and inevitable. A large group of far-right rioters gathered outside a hotel where people who are going through the asylum system
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Show compassion to ‘economic migrants,’ urges Catholic writer.

Writer Anne Booth has described  in the Catholic magazine, The Tablet, how her parents, both economic migrants, came over from Ireland in the 1950s to work in England. Her mother
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