Media response to today’s asylum figures – Reduction of asylum applications masks a failure to remove | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on today’s asylum figures think tank Migrationwatch welcomed the reduction in claims which will reduce the pressure on the asylum system and the cost (currently about £2bn a year) to the tax payer – even though Britain is still the largest recipient of asylum seekers in the industrialised world. But, it says, this may […]
Asylum ‘amnesty’ looks set to be repeated | Migration Watch UK
The ‘one-off’ amnesty announced by the Government last week to some 15,000 families of asylum seekers – totaling perhaps 50,000 people – may well happen again. The Government have admitted to only half the likely numbers. There could well be a similar number who are already ‘in the pipeline’ and who will, in due course, […]
MW142 : Asylum Amnesty; the decks are far from cleared | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1.On October 24, 2003 the Home Secretary announced that 15,000 families who had sought asylum before October 2000, and most of whom had had their application rejected, would be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK. The families selected were ones who had a child at the time of making their application. The […]
Immigration Appeal System now ‘A Soft Touch’… | Migration Watch UK
Fears that the appeal system has become a ‘soft touch’ have been expressed after an analysis of Government figures on asylum appeals showed a four-fold increase in six years. ‘This is a huge rise in a short time for which no Government explanation has been forthcoming,’ said Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch. ‘Once again […]
Asylum Removals a ‘Miserable Failure’ – despite £5M a day bill… | Migration Watch UK
Less than one in five failed asylum seekers is being removed from Britain – even though the whole asylum process is costing taxpayers £5million a day. The figures come from independent think tank Migrationwatch which is analysing the detail of last week’s asylum figures and has issued its interim findings. ‘It is correct that the […]
Asylum Removals a ‘Miserable Failure’ – despite £5M a day bill… | Migration Watch UK
Less than one in five failed asylum seekers is being removed from Britain – even though the whole asylum process is costing taxpayers £5million a day. The figures come from independent think tank Migrationwatch which is analysing the detail of last week’s asylum figures and has issued its interim findings. ‘It is correct that the […]
Britain must regain control of Asylum Laws… | Migration Watch UK
The UK must escape from the tangle of international Conventions and return decision-making to Westminster if the current crisis in the asylum system is ever to be resolved. That is the view of think-tank, MigrationwatchUK, which has proposed that Britain cut loose from the international straitjacket and pass her own laws adapted to her own […]
MW62 : Asylum Laws: A Way Forward | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. False asylum claimants are clogging up the system to the detriment of genuine refugees. The present legal framework is unable to deliver the only humane solution – the swift grant of asylum to those who deserve it and the rapid removal of those who do not. The 1951 Refugee Convention and the Human Rights […]
Asylum Day on the BBC | Migration Watch UK
The BBC will have a full day of TV programmes about asylum on Wednesday, 23 July. MigrationwatchUK’s Chairman, Sir Andrew Green, will be appearing on BBC1 at 10.35 pm (‘Face the Nation’ – a live debate on asylum) as one of a number of immigration and asylum experts. Harry Mitchell QC, a member of MigrationwatchUK’s […]
MWUK examines government asylum claims | Migration Watch UK
Migrationwatch UK has cast doubt on whether the government has yet ‘turned the corner’ on asylum applications with the release of figures that show the recent downturn was due to special factors. The asylum statistics issued by the Home Office on 22 May showed an unexpectedly large drop of 7,385 in the first quarter of […]