How the policy for asylum seekers in the UK will change

24 March 20213 years ago babelfish

The article by Daniele Meloni

It was one of the founding themes of Brexit and also of Johnson's victory in the 2019 elections. Now, however, in the UK it is getting serious and yesterday the Minister of the Interior, Priti Patel, set out his plans on how to counteract the illegal immigration and how to welcome asylum seekers and refugees into the country.

While his Immigration Act had already directed the UK towards an Australian-modeled migrant reception system, Patel said that according to his plan, people who enter the UK illegally and apply for asylum will no longer have the same. rights of those who arrive legally respecting the new rules. Those who arrive legally will have the right to stay in the UK for an unlimited time.

Thus the Minister of the Interior spoke of a "fairer" system that would make it more difficult for migrants to stay in the country after arriving by illegal routes.

The rule has naturally created a crawl space of controversy. For Labor, the government is "without competence and without compassion" on the issue of the right to asylum. Refugee support groups have called it "unfair" and "surreal". Patel, on the other hand, argues that the New Plan for Immigration will be the largest asylum reform in the UK in decades.

There have been over 35,000 asylum applications in the UK as of March 2020, with Iran, Albania and Iraq ranking at the top of the nationalities with the largest number of applicants. The government wants rejected applications to be dealt with with the removal of applicants from the country. Similarly, the Home Office argues that asylum seekers who flee political persecution or violence from countries such as Syria and who arrive in London with "legal resettlement" will be able to benefit from an indefinite residence permit.

"These rules will save lives and help us identify smugglers and human merchants," Patel said. "Nobody will be able to make a profit by exploiting people in the UK."

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-cambiera-la-politica-per-i-richiedenti-asilo-nel-regno-unito/ on Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:36:01 +0000.