Canada’s Cautionary Tale
We learn this week the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has plans to let community groups, universities and other organisations sponsor refugees to settle in Britain. This would be in addition to the existing direct “resettlement routes” which have already allowed over 360,000 asylum seekers to travel to Britain via so-called safe and legal routes since 2005.
Africa’s Forgotten Crisis Risks New Asylum Wave
In the two or three years prior to the 2015/16 deluge of asylum seekers, the EU, of which Britain was still a part, should have known that a mass movement of people would follow upheaval and conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, as well as in Africa.. And yet, everyone was caught totally unawares in 2015. Are we, once again, in the process of making the same catastrophic mistakes?