The Home Office has been accused of “callousness” and “inhumanity” after blaming asylum seekers for the spread of the coronavirus in a military camp where hundreds are being held, with dozens to a dormitory. Residents have been banned from leaving Napier Barracks, in Kent, since Saturday after a number of individuals tested positive for Covid-19. They were told they were “not to leave the site under any circumstance” and that if they did they.
by Bethany Rielly
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for a vaccination programme “that works for everyone” amid fears that immigration policies are preventing undocumented migrants from accessing the life-saving jab.
Healthcare professionals have repeatedly called on the government to suspend NHS charges and immigration checks, claiming that the measures are “dangerous” and undermine efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19.
Now migrant rights groups have raised concerns that these policies could prevent vulnerable communities from being able to access the vaccine.
In a letter to the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) called for the charges to be suspended, and for a “comprehensive firewall” to be set up between healthcare and the Home Office during the pandemic.
NHS worker stuck in Kenya as settled status documents are rejected Diane Taylor
An NHS worker has been left stranded in Kenya because she has been told that new EU settled status documents issued to her by the Home Office are not valid for travel.
Doreen Kathambi, 36, lives in Glasgow with her fiance, Iain Dunsmore. She works as a dietetic assistant at the Royal Alexandra hospital in Paisley.
She had to travel to Kenya last month for her father’s funeral and informed her employers she would be back in the UK by Monday 18 January.
She obtained her EUSS documents from the Home Office last month to enable her to attend the funeral.
NEW rules that deny asylum to refugees who’ve passed through a “safe” country are “unworkable” and risk plunging the asylum system into “chaos.”
Under changes to the immigration rules, which came into effect on January 1, any person who has travelled through or has a connection with a safe third country could have their asylum case declared inadmissible.
The changes allow the government to remove asylum-seekers not only to countries they have passed through but also any state willing to accept them.
However, lawyers and refugee rights groups interviewed by the Morning Star claim the rules are “unworkable” in practice, and will only add further delays to the asylum system.
Boris Johnson has prompted fury after wrongly suggesting all migrants barred from state support under the Home Office’s no recourse to public funds (NRPF) policy are in the UK unlawfully. The prime minister has rejected calls for the NRPF condition to be suspended during the pandemic, backing up this decision by saying it applies to people who are in the country illegally. NRPF is a condition applied to people in the UK with a temporary.