United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR has come down hard UK Prime Minister, on Rishi Sunak There are plans to pass a new “illegal migration law” that would prevent migrants arriving in the UK illegally from being granted asylum, Standing on a platform marked “Stop the Boats”, Mr Sunak said the government was concerned about the number of people attempting to travel to Britain and applying for asylum while on British soil, which The government exchequer has to pay a lot. Instead, as Home Secretary Suella Braverman explained in her introduction Bill This week, asylum seekers who try to enter illegally will be returned either to their own countries or to a “third country”, possibly Rwanda, which has made an agreement to provide processing facilities for them. He also faces a lifetime ban on citizenship and re-entry into the UK. First, people who flee their homes and countries often do so without the proper paperwork, because they were forced to leave in order to save their lives. Many of the estimated 45,000 who came to the UK last year on “small boats” may have been economic refugees rather than political asylum seekers, and it is problematic that the British government does not distinguish between the two. The bill makes an exception for those arriving directly from the countries they are fleeing, but this will be a small proportion given the short distances that can be traveled by “small boats”. The British government, like America’s Trump administration, which rests on the equally catchy “build that wall” slogan, is long on political rhetoric but short on the actual mechanics of making such a plan work, if it is to be one. fails to be a deterrent. For small boats carrying migrants. Furthermore, the plan to move asylum seekers to a third country, in addition to sounding neo-colonial, would come at a considerable cost, one that hapless migrants are unlikely to be able to afford.
The British move is meant to stop the small boats, but must be seen in the larger political context of anti-immigrant and xenophobic beliefs in other democracies. While Western countries have long cited international law and convention to vilify India over its plans to forcibly deport Rohingya refugees to Myanmar or discriminate on the basis of religion in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, they need to introspect on their message to the world. should do. They are making such laws themselves. By dismissing asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, nearly all of whom are crossing unsafe routes to their shores in search of a better life, they also undermine the real contributions immigrants make to their societies, including Mr. Sunak’s parents are also involved. and Ms. Braverman, who made her journey through Africa during a more welcoming time.