Tag: Seekers
Disused cruise ships could be used to house asylum seekers – Braverman
The home secretary told a committee of peers that using hotels was costing more than £5m a day.
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Rwanda asylum seekers: 'Fighting to survive'
The BBC goes to Rwanda as a court rules on the UK's plan to send asylum seekers there.
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Councils in court over hotels housing asylum seekers
Questioning the councils, Mr Justice Holgate asked: "If the injunction is granted, then alternative accommodation will have to be provided. There is p [...]
Priti Patel on UK flights to Rwanda for asylum seekers
People have voted for controlled immigration and the government "acts and hears that message clearly", the home secretary has said. Priti Patel was up [...]
Why is the UK sending asylum seekers to Rwanda?
The government wants to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda in a bid to reduce Channel crossings
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Flight to remove asylum seekers from UK to Rwanda allowed by court
Campaigners failed in their High Court bid to halt the removal which is planned for Tuesday.
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How Asylum Seekers Cross the Border
The southern border is seeing a historic spike in migrant crossings. A New York Times photographer documented three ways that people cross the border [...]
Yvette Cooper on UK sending asylum seekers to Rwanda
Labour has criticised the governments plans to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda.Yvette Cooper told MPs the plan to was a distraction from the [...]
Rwanda asylum seekers plan should be active in weeks – Andrew Griffith MP
The government plan to send some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats to live in Rwanda could be implemented in "weeks", according to Co [...]
Rwanda asylum seekers: UK could send first people ‘within weeks’
Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK's refugee and migrant rights director, said that sending people seeking asylum in the UK to another cou [...]
Immigration: PM outlines Rwanda plans for asylum seekers
Single men arriving in Britain on boats or lorries could be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda.
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UK to sign deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing
The government's plan, set to be announced on Thursday, is criticised as "cruel" by a refugee charity.
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Cut time asylum seekers wait to work, say Tory MPs
Some MPs are calling on the government to let people work after six months of waiting for an asylum decision.
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Haitian asylum seekers have been abandoned in Mexico
Thousands of Haitians are indefinitely trapped in Mexico. They face pervasive racism, and many are unable to work, have no access to medical care, [...]
Councils to be forced to take child asylum seekers
The vast majority of councils have already offered places to unaccompanied children, according to Nick Forbes, chairman of the Local Government Ass [...]