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Court of appeal supports asylum seekers challenge

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Whitewavemark2 Thu 29-Jun-23 10:40:13

Pippa Crerar
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BREAKING: Campaigners and asylum seekers have won a Court of Appeal challenge over the Government’s planned Rwanda deportation scheme.

Well at least that will save £169000 per person transported for the time.

Off to Supreme Court now I guess.

Siope Mon 03-Jul-23 12:57:48

nicenanny3 Selectively highlighting to reinforce your own prejudices is weird. The rest of what I wrote matters equally.

they are destroyed in an act of war; they’ve been seized by the authororities, and lots more. Plus many embassies in war zones are closed

The latter matters because a) those without passports but with the means to buy one can’t get them; and b) many countries require either exit or entry visas to travel, and these can’t be obtained if embassies or consulates aren’t open.

At that point (stay with me here, it’s not complicated) travel by major carrier becomes even more problematic because of lack of training and investment in implementing the Carrier Sanctions Directive 2001/51/EC, in particular Recital 3 of the directive which states that signatories have to apply the directive “without prejudice to the obligations resulting from the 1951 Geneva Convention”, which includes the prohibition of refoulement

Maremia Mon 03-Jul-23 12:51:48

Yes, Braverman is now on a shoogly peg. Is Anderson touting for her position?

Maremia Mon 03-Jul-23 12:49:29

DaisyAnneReturns, yes. Amazing that he used to be a Labour politician.

Maremia Mon 03-Jul-23 12:48:15

To find out if people are genuine asylum seekers or economic migrants, you would need to have in place an effective, efficient, properly funded, resourced and peopled system of border control. Did we used to have such a thing in place? If so, what became of it?

Katie59 Mon 03-Jul-23 12:46:26

Siope
So how many migrants do you think this country should accept, because there are many countries where minorities are persecuted, wrong tribe, wrong religion.
All countries have identity documents I don’t believe cost is an issue

Nicenanny3 Mon 03-Jul-23 12:35:46

11:17Siope

DAR there are many reasons asylum seekers don’t have documents (passports are just a part of it): they don’t have them to start with (passports are for the affluent); they are destroyed in an act of war; they’ve been seized by the authororities, and lots more. Plus many embassies in war zones are closed.

If only the affluent have passports how can the illegals on the dinghies pay thousands of pounds to get here, let me think most are really economic migrants🤔

DaisyAnneReturns Mon 03-Jul-23 11:26:13

I haven't seen your posts on that! I'll look it up.

Siope Mon 03-Jul-23 11:17:16

DAR there are many reasons asylum seekers don’t have documents (passports are just a part of it): they don’t have them to start with (passports are for the affluent); they are destroyed in an act of war; they’ve been seized by the authororities, and lots more. Plus many embassies in war zones are closed.

Of course, safe routes matter, and require staff who are trained in assessing undocumented claimants.

And don’t get me started (again, I’ve written reams on here before) on the UK’s lack of interest in investing in correctly implementing the Carrier Sanctions Directive 2001/51/EC, which would make a massive difference.

DaisyAnneReturns Mon 03-Jul-23 11:02:58

MayBee70

I still can’t get over Lee Anderson being MP in Dennis Skinners old constituency…

It's very Sparticus. Will the real Conservstive party please stand up.

I wonder where his backing is coming from?

DaisyAnneReturns Mon 03-Jul-23 11:01:26

Katie59

“However, I don't think it is at all clear, from the statistics of the percentage eventually granted assylum, in our oh so slow system, that the majority are not genuine. I wonder what led you to form this idea?”

The fact that a great many that arrive in the UK deliberately destroy their passports so they cannot be returned adds testament to that, they are abusing our liberal system.

I think they are told to do that by the people who they believe their lives depend on.

If they could go to the embassy in the first safe country and apply for assylum in the country they want to move to, they would stiĺ have their passports. We don't facilitate any "safe routes" any more.

Siope Mon 03-Jul-23 10:59:24

Katie59

“However, I don't think it is at all clear, from the statistics of the percentage eventually granted assylum, in our oh so slow system, that the majority are not genuine. I wonder what led you to form this idea?”

The fact that a great many that arrive in the UK deliberately destroy their passports so they cannot be returned adds testament to that, they are abusing our liberal system.

That’s not how it works. I have explained already that there is a robust process used by assessing staff for undocumented asylum seekers (and other potential immigrants).

Please provide evidence to back up your claim that “many, probably a majority, are not genuine asylum seekers”.

DaisyAnneReturns Mon 03-Jul-23 10:53:28

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Katie59 Mon 03-Jul-23 10:50:22

“However, I don't think it is at all clear, from the statistics of the percentage eventually granted assylum, in our oh so slow system, that the majority are not genuine. I wonder what led you to form this idea?”

The fact that a great many that arrive in the UK deliberately destroy their passports so they cannot be returned adds testament to that, they are abusing our liberal system.

MayBee70 Mon 03-Jul-23 10:42:59

I still can’t get over Lee Anderson being MP in Dennis Skinners old constituency…

MayBee70 Mon 03-Jul-23 10:40:05

MaizieD

Whitewavemark2

I note that bastion if the right wing and Braverman supporter -Steve Baker- can no longer stomach Bravermans culture wars and has withdrawn his support.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/02/steve-baker-withdraws-support-for-suella-braverman-over-grooming-gangs-rhetoric-says-ally?CMP=share_btn_tw

Steve Baker is an evangelical Christian. Reminds me of the evangelical Christians in America who support Trump. I really don’t understand some people.

Nicenanny3 Mon 03-Jul-23 10:33:54

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DaisyAnneReturns Mon 03-Jul-23 10:33:25

Maremia

And now you can relax. New Conservatives, with Lee Anderson, has announced their 12 point plan to reduce immigration.

Oh my goodness. Thirty P Lee.

Siope Mon 03-Jul-23 10:29:23

It has lost its marbles, very much encouraged by the likes of Braverman, Howard, Anderson et al, and shows no signs of recovering them

conservativehome.com/2023/07/03/our-survey-seven-in-ten-conservative-activists-believe-that-the-uk-should-leave-the-echr/

Whitewavemark2 Mon 03-Jul-23 10:18:56

Unless the Tory party completely loses it’s marbles, i can’t see her standing a snowballs chance in hell of becoming the next leader.

Wyllow3 Mon 03-Jul-23 10:12:14

It will be tragic. I hope there are more.

MaizieD Mon 03-Jul-23 10:07:53

Whitewavemark2

I note that bastion if the right wing and Braverman supporter -Steve Baker- can no longer stomach Bravermans culture wars and has withdrawn his support.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/02/steve-baker-withdraws-support-for-suella-braverman-over-grooming-gangs-rhetoric-says-ally?CMP=share_btn_tw

Whitewavemark2 Mon 03-Jul-23 09:49:28

I note that bastion if the right wing and Braverman supporter -Steve Baker- can no longer stomach Bravermans culture wars and has withdrawn his support.

Siope Mon 03-Jul-23 09:41:22

Maremia

And now you can relax. New Conservatives, with Lee Anderson, has announced their 12 point plan to reduce immigration.

It’s literally all they have now, isn’t it? Creating culture wars and inciting fear of others in a desperate attempt to cling on to their seats, regardless of the economic and social impacts.

I hope there are saner, more responsible conservative MPs who will speak out against this nonsense. It will be telling - and tragic - if not.

DaisyAnneReturns Mon 03-Jul-23 09:35:26

Katie59

I don’t think the debate is about left or right wing there are plenty of Labour voters who don’t like migrants and plenty of Tory voters who are tolerant. It about liberalism, how many migrants should we allow and what should we do with them.

It’s clear many, probably a majority are not genuine assylum seekers, I dont have solutions for stopping boats crossing the channel, but arrivals should be processed quickly and given work not dumped in camps or hotels for months.

You are right Katie. Extreme views exist on both left and right.

However, I don't think it is at all clear, from the statistics of the percentage eventually granted assylum, in our oh so slow system, that the majority are not genuine. I wonder what led you to form this idea?

MerylStreep Mon 03-Jul-23 09:32:32

We are friendly with the Serbian owner of a car wash.
Some years ago we had an incident in Southend involving migrants for Kosovo so this subject came up.
His attitude was that there are too many of them because they work cheap and could put him out of business.
We pointed out to him that friends of ours had gone bust because of cheap Labour.