Channel crossings smash 39,000 following hundreds last week crossing #EnglishChannel!
-> Government plans 14 potential asylum sites.
-> Labour's Home Secretary #ShabanaMahmoodMP pledges radical overhaul, eyeing Denmark's hard-line model!
#MigrationCrisis #ChannelCrisis #UKAsylum

UK tells thousands of foreign students not to overstay visas, else they will be…

The United Kingdom government has asked tens of thousands of foreign students not to overstay their visas else…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Foreignstudents #internationalstudents #Latvia #LV #UKasylum #UKHomeOffice #UKvisa #UnitedKingdom #universitystudy #YvetteCooper
https://www.newsbeep.com/101306/

-> Home Sec #YvetteCooper to tighten asylum family reunions: tougher English tests, fund proofs & appeals reforms to sync with Europe.
-> Amid record claims, is this Labour's fix?
#UKAsylum #ImmigrationReform #FamilyReunification #LabourGov #MigrationCrisis

“The uncomfortable truth for us is that if one child who was related to one of us in this room went missing, the world would stop."

“But in the community I represent, a child has gone missing, then five went missing then a dozen went missing, then 50 went missing. Now, more than 70 are missing, and nothing is happening."

Peter Kyle,
Labour MP,
U.K.

#UKAsylum
#RefugeesWelcome

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/world/europe/uk-asylum-seekers-children-missing.html

Hundreds of Children Seeking Asylum in U.K. Are Missing

The unaccompanied minors are mostly Albanian teenagers who had been living in hotels. Rights advocates and some lawmakers believe that they have been abducted by criminal gangs.

"Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people in a sample of 213 people who were threatened with being sent to Rwanda by the Home Office have fled from countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Sudan and Syria. At least 82% of people from these countries have successful applications in the UK."

#UKAsylum
#RefugeesWelcome
#SafeRoutes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/25/nearly-half-asylum-seekers-facing-removal-rwanda-married

Nearly half of asylum seekers facing removal from UK to Rwanda are married

Survey contradicts Priti Patel’s claims that people crossing Channel are ‘not genuine’ asylum seekers

The Guardian