All who enter the UK illegally would be banned from claiming asylum under new plans to stop small boat crossings in the Channel
Home secretary Suella Braverman wants a blanket ban on people who enter the UK illegally from being able to ask for asylum, and is considering new laws making it easier to deport them.
That has already exceeded 2021's total of 28,526 and the Home Office's reasonable worst case scenario for how many people make the journey in total this year is 60,000 people. "This country has always done so. It did so for my father in the 1960s as a young man from Kenya. We have now welcomed hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Syria, Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Ukraine.
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