Kay Burley (Sky): “You say coming over on a small boat is illegal”
James Cleverly: “Yea”
Kay Burley: “So why don’t we arrest them?”
James Cleverly: “because…em…because…em…the point is…”
Isn’t it odd that politicians in office can break the law and not have to resign, be fined, get a criminal record or go to jail if they are caught doing something illegal as part of their jobs?
The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.
Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.
"UK may try to send small boat arrivals to Ascension Island, minister confirms - Home Office minister says people could be sent to south Atlantic island if Rwanda policy fails"
For the love of God will these people never stop with these insane ideas?
So the Illegal Migration Act means that the Tories will no longer be able to use the overseas aid budget to pay for housing asylum seekers in country. This is because reclassifying asylum seekers as 'illegal migrants' means that they are removed from the purview of the aid budget.
So the Act is going to cost the Home Office £4 billion a year. You couldn't make it up.
On Christmas morning, I went to the U.S.-Mexico border fence before dawn to take some photos and write a story about the asylum seekers just south of me at the Lukeville, AZ crossing. I hope you like it. I have several more in the works.
The Rwanda plan in on (at great cost financially, and in humane terms) with the Home Office targeting around 350 asylum seekers they think have the least ability to launch successful claims against deportation to Rwanda.
Given that each of the first 300 migrants targeted by the Home Office will have cost around £1.8m to remove from the UK, you cannot but wonder how much better that money would have been spent integrating them into society!
Graham King, an Essex businessman who won government contracts paying his firm £3.5m a day for transporting and accommodating asylum seekers has been named among the 350 richest people in the UK.
"This is a textbook pushback – exactly the same as we see in Greece,” said one search and rescue expert who was shown the footage. “That one manoeuvre alone could cause a mass casualty event. The water is deep enough to drown in. I’ve seen this in the central Mediterranean many times, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this happening in the Channel.”
"Initially, small boat arrivals were sleeping on gym mats in the Manston marquees, but the Home Office decided they were a fire risk and removed them, leaving people to sleep on the cold floor with just blankets to lie on. While people were supposed to be held in Manston for just 24 hours, many were unlawfully detained there for longer, the longest known case being 43 days"
This is just pure evil. "Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre
Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK"
The Rwandan government has barred Clementine de Montjoye, a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Africa division, from entering the country, prompting accusations that officials are seeking to dodge independent scrutiny just weeks before the UK government is due to send asylum seekers there for the first time.
"..this model that some people want to put in place, which means that you go and look for a third country, for example in Africa, and send our immigrants there”.
“We’re creating a geopolitics of cynicism which betrays our values and will build new dependencies, and which will prove completely ineffective”
Emmanuel Macron.
Home Office officials fear the number of migrants deported on the first Rwanda flight could be in single figures because of legal challenges.
The concerns are believed to be behind moves to expand the scheme to include ALL failed asylum seekers on top of the initial cohort of 5,700 migrants so far earmarked for deportation.
Given Rwanda only has room for a few hundred currently, this is arrant nonsense and performative cruelty.