UK Home Secretary defends violent immigration law
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said the government’s controversial new bill to stop migrant boats crossing the English Channel does not breach international asylum law.
Braverman spoke about the “Illegal Immigration Bill”, which aims to prevent irregular migrants from entering the UK through the English Channel via small boats, on the show he attended on Sky News. Saying that the bill, which international non-governmental organizations and human rights organizations strongly criticized on the grounds that it would place an “immigrant asylum ban”, he is “very confident” that the UK complies with his international legal obligations, Braverman continued his words as follows:
“We don’t break the law, and no government representative has ever said that we broke the law. In fact, we have made it very clear that we believe we comply with all our international obligations, such as the Refugee Convention, the European Convention on Human Rights and other conventions to which we are bound. But the important thing is that we have to take compassionate but necessary and fair measures because there are people who are dying to get here. They are breaking our laws. They abuse the generosity of the British people.”
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British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that with the enactment of the bill drafted by the government yesterday, irregular migrants who enter the country illegally on boats will be deported within 28 days without subjecting themselves to any judicial review or bail. , and legal proceedings will be carried out. remotely after deportation.
Braverman announced that only those under the age of 18 whose health is unfit to travel and those whose lives are in danger in their country will take longer to be deported.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also said in a statement that it was “deeply concerned” by the bill, stating that the bill in its current form obliges the Home Office to block access by irregular immigrants to the UK asylum system. . (AA)