Patel’s Harsh Immigration Policy Is Not Working

Jun 18, 2022 • The Home Secretary Priti Patel's Immigration policy is not working. Her policy appears to be focused on stopping as many immigrants and asylum seekers from coming to the UK as possible. Official routes have effectively been closed except for the 'brightest and the best'.

Because of this and the French appearing to be less willing to help stop the boats, the number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel is increasing rapidly.

Having tried and failed to return them to France and having failed to send them to Ascension Island, the Home Secretary is now trying to send them to Rwanda with no chance of return. This is both cruel and stupid and will not stop the people-traffickers.

There is a backlog of 50,000 asylum seekers in the UK at the moment and none of these is allowed to work despite severe labour shortages in many industries. Immigration under Patel, whose only response to punish the desperate people who are seeking asylum, is in chaos.

EU Citizens Arriving in UK Being Locked Up and Expelled

THE GUARDIAN: Europeans with job interviews tell of detentions and expulsions despite rules allowing non-visa holders to attend interviews

EU citizens are being sent to immigration removal centres and held in airport detention rooms as the UK government’s “hostile environment” policy falls on them after Brexit, according to campaigners and travellers interviewed by the Guardian.

Europeans with job interviews are among those being denied entry and locked up. They have spoken of being subjected to the traumatic and humiliating experience of expulsion, despite Home Office rules that explicitly allow non-visa holders to attend interviews.

Confusion about whether EU citizens can explore the UK job market and then go home with an offer in order to apply for a work visa has added to the growing number of detentions. In other cases, visitors are clearly breaking rules, such as those now barring EU citizens from taking up unpaid internships.

At least a dozen European citizens – mostly young women – were detained and expelled at Gatwick airport alone over 48 hours last week, two female Spanish detainees told the Guardian. Some were sent two hours’ drive away to Yarl’s Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire, where a Covid scare meant they were confined to their rooms. » | Giles Tremlett in Madrid and Lisa O'Carroll | Thursday, May 13, 2021

Brexit and the Insanity of Our New Immigration Policy

Having demonised EU citizens who have come to the U.K. over many years to work and pay taxes, we have now ended free movement and introduced new policies which will make it virtually impossible for unskilled workers to come and work in the U.K. As our population ages and the tax paying employed shrink in number we will have to find new immigrants who are likely to come from Africa and Asia At the same time we have lost control of illegal immigration across the Channel

Amnesty Report Slams Trump, Other Leaders

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Germany: Wilders Criticises Islam and Migration Policy at 'Freedom for Europe' Congress

"Islam is a violation of the constitution," said leader of the Dutch populist right Freedom Party (PVV) Geert Wilders, when speaking to press on the sidelines of the 'Freedom for Europe' congress, in Koblenz, Saturday.

Angela Merkel Defends Immigration Policy after Election Blow

THE GUARDIAN: German chancellor says mainstream parties have a joint responsibility to tackle the rise of the right

Angela Merkel has staunchly defended her government’s immigration policy following dramatic gains by the anti-refugee Alternative für Deutschland in regional elections, and said traditional parties have a joint responsibility to tackle the rise of the right.

“The AfD is a challenge for all of us in this house,” the German chancellor told the Bundestag in a combative address in which she made clear that she had no intention of changing her course. » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Catholic Leader Brands Immigration Policies 'Inhumane'

Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The most senior Catholic cleric in England and Wales criticised the Government for being "inhuman[e]" in their pursuit of immigration targets.

The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales labelled the Government’s immigration policies which prevent families from living together in Britain “inhumane”.

Vincent Nicholas, the archbishop of Westminster, said rules which prevent foreign spouses of UK citizens moving here would blight the lives of thousands of British children.

He called on the Government to rethink the legislation which came into force in 2012 which prevents people from outside the European Union settling in the UK with their British husband or wife unless they can show an annual income of at least £18,600.

Writing in the Guardian, Nichols said: "Anyone truly concerned for the family as the building block of society, and realistic about the mobility of British people today, must see both the folly of this policy and how it is an affront to the status of British citizenship. » | Miranda Prynne, News Reporter | Monday, December 16, 2013