Goodbye the Rwanda plan and welcome 60,000 political asylum seekers in Britain. Many of those who arrived in inflatable boats from France, via the English Channel, They will be benefited.
It is expected that tens of thousands of people receive asylumafter Labor scrapped the Rwanda deportation plan and removed controversial provisions in the Illegal Migration Bill, which the Conservatives introduced after Brexit.
More than 2,000 migrants have arrived in Britain after crossing the Channel in small boats during the last two weeks.
More than 60,000 migrants who entered the UK illegally will be able to stay permanently as a result of changes to the asylum system introduced by Sir Keir Starmer’s government, according to a report.
Thousands of immigrants arrived after crossing the Channel in small boats. Photo: Reuters
The Labor Party scrapped Rwanda deportation plan .Eliminated controversial provisions of the Illegal Migration Law that effectively prevented that anyone who arrived in the United Kingdom illegally would apply for asylum.
The measure has led to tens of thousands of migrants, who have arrived in small boats and generally come from Afghanistan, Syria, Kurdistan and Sudan, since March last year, can submit their asylum application and have your case processed by officials.
Concentrated in Albania
The measure announced by the Labor government contrasts with the Italian decision to create a camp for asylum seekers in Albania, where they will be processed. There, in a rapid process, those who seek asylum will be accepted and those who do not have the right to live in Italy will be sent back. They pick them up at sea and take them there.
The Italian ship Libra carries migrants to Albania. Photo: AP
To the European Union you are interested in that model because, given the advance of the extreme right in the electorate, the problem of immigration has become an electoral campaign issue. They are looking for a solution for asylum seekers.
More than 62,800 asylum seekers
A report from the Refugee Council has predicted that the British decision will lead to 62,801 migrants granted asylum and allowed to remain in the UK permanently. Under the previous Conservative government they would have been permanently banned from settling in the UK.
Migrants have been stuck in hotels for three years due to a backlog of asylum applications.
The Ministry of the Interior has had to increase the number of immigrants in hotels after an increase in crossings in small boats.
In the last two weeks, 2,265 migrants have arrived in small inflatable rubber boats. At least 973 arrived in a single day on October 5. That means that 27,509 people have arrived via the English Channel this year, 6 percent more than this time last year.
Asylum hotels and more families
The Home Office instructed its asylum hotel providers this week to free up more space for migrants, after available capacity was drastically reduced. The Home Office said it was looking for more beds in existing hotels, rather than opening new hotels. In June, there were almost 30,000 migrants in more than 250 hotels, costing taxpayers £4.2m a day.
A Home Office source said the increase in demand for hotel rooms was also caused by the change in the type of migrants crossing the Channel, with more families arriving. Previously, the vast majority of small boat arrivals were single adult men.
“We inherit a chaotic landscape of expensive hotel contracts, large sites and scattered accommodation. We have begun processing asylum applications, which had been paralyzed under the Conservative government. “This caused a record backlog of asylum applications and a £5bn black hole in the Home Office budget,” the source said.
Any increase in the use of migrant hotels is likely to cause problems for Labor MPs, who have warned of the growing threat from Nigel Farage’s reformist, anti-immigrant party.
They come in trucks
The danger at sea and the arrival of families has forced asylum seekers in the kingdom to choose other paths, when Britain has not opened safe routes for them to arrive.
Jon Featonby, chief policy analyst at the Refugee Council, said a growing number of illegal immigrants They arrived in the back of trucks due to the increasingly dangerous nature of small boat crossings.
This year they have been confirmed 52 deaths of immigrants trying to cross the Channel. This means that almost half of all recorded deaths of people crossing the Channel in a small boat since the beginning of 2019 have occurred by 2024. Most migrants do not know how to swim, especially sub-Saharans.
