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As Record Number of Refugees Cross Channel, Britain Seeks to Criminalize Irregular Migration - New Delhi Times
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Deliberate cruelty : Child refugees sleeping on the floor for days at Dover port
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Channel patrol: Priti Patel’s harsh regime is ‘answer to a crisis that doesn’t exist’ Mark Townsend © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images
Blue skies appeared above Dover, and for the crew of the Valiant, moored off the harbour wall, it was a signal to start readying for action. Fine weather meant more migrants would soon be heading towards them. For those on board the Border Force cutter, it was a familiar routine. Already this year it has brought ashore hundreds of asylum seekers, another 65 last Sunday alone.
So far, 6,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats during the first six months of the year. The figure for the whole of 2020 was 8,417, a total expected to be eclipsed during the next two months as clement weather makes the treacherous crossing more tempting.
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Rights advocates condemn U.K. asylum plan
The British government yesterday introduced a plan that would allow it to transfer asylum seekers out of the country while their applications are being processed and to criminalize entering the country illegally. Human rights groups say the policies would violate international laws.
The bill places refugees in two distinct groups based on their mode of arrival in Britain either through resettlement or via irregular means, such as a boat or truck, which would be treated as a criminal matter and result in an arrest.
Bridget Chapman, a spokeswoman for the Kent Refugee Action Network, said that Britain had “a shared responsibility” to accept people who were applying for asylum. “We can’t outsource that to poorer countries, that’s an abdication of responsibility,” she added.
Kent slams government failure to make asylum transfer scheme compulsory
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