it s a completely impossible situation. at the moment, unless you re from ukraine or hong kong, or you re one of the very lucky 1,400 people who got on a resettlement scheme last year, the only way to claim asylum in the uk is to reach uk soils. under this bill, if you do reach uk soil, you will then be barred from claiming asylum. so our essential question is, if you are fleeing persecution, if you are fleeing war, if you are running for your life from afghanistan or syria, how do you claim asylum in the uk if this bill passes? i think we would also say that there is no evidence this bill will work. we work with 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers every year and what we know, what we hear time and time again, is that people don t know about the asylum system before they get here, and in fact the home office s own research has shown this. sojust making the asylum system
crossing the channel in small boats. do you agree? so i think this is at the heart do you agree? so i think this is at the heart of do you agree? so i think this is at the heart of the uk asylum system a real catch the heart of the uk asylum system a real catch 22. it is a completely impossible situation. at the moment, unless impossible situation. at the moment, unless you impossible situation. at the moment, unless you are from ukraine or hong kon- unless you are from ukraine or hong kong or unless you are from ukraine or hong kong or you unless you are from ukraine or hong kong or you are one of the very lucky kong or you are one of the very lucky i400 kong or you are one of the very lucky 1400 people who got on those resettlement schemes last year, the only way resettlement schemes last year, the only way to resettlement schemes last year, the only way to claim asylum in the uk is to reach only way to claim asylum in the uk is to reach uk soils. under this bill,
in the uk is to reach uk soils. under this bill, if you do reach uk soil, you willthen be. so our essential question is, if you are fleeing persecution, fleeing war, running for your life from afghanistan or syria, how do you claim asylum in the uk if this bill passes? i think we would also say that there is no evidence this bill will work. we work with 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers every year and what we know, what we hear time and time again is that people don t know about the asylum system before they get here, and in fact the home office s own research has shown this. sojust making the asylum system harsher, making it more punitive, won t work because people literally don t know what the system is before they arrive in the uk. i want to put to use something that the prime minister has said, quoted in the mail on sunday today. rishi sunak said that illegal migration, as he calls it, isn t fair on british taxpayers, isn t fair on those who come here illegally, and he says it isn
so i think this puts at the heart of the uk asylum system a real catch 22. it s a completely impossible situation. at the moment, unless you are from ukraine or hong kong or you are one of the very lucky 1,400 people who got on a resettlement scheme last year, the only way to claim asylum in the uk is to reach uk soils. under this bill, if you do reach uk soil, you willthen be. so our essential question is, if you are fleeing persecution, fleeing war, running for your life from afghanistan or syria, how do you claim asylum in the uk if this bill passes? we work with 30,000 refugees
we saw yesterday the court really seemed hesitant to jump to wipe away one of the current protections that are provided to internet companies. today they did parse over this antiterrorism statute a little more closely rgs but either way, they are still way weighing these arguments if they change the current system, it will lead to this chaos and disarray in the way the internet is run and could lead to a flood of lawsuits. so big stakes for big tech here. essential question for both cases. justice kagan raised yesterday, are they the right people to make the calls about the future of the internet. we ll have so much more on this as this continues. thank you for all of that. right now, we turn to the trial of alex murdaugh, who was accused of murdering his son and his wife. the defense today calling murdaugh s former law partner to the stand to testify about the night of the murders. randi kaye is outside of the courtroom in south carolina. so what did this former law