Rishi Sunak’s controversial new asylum laws will do “next to nothing” to stop Channel small boat crossings, the Institute for Government has warned 🔴 singharj reports:
Channel asylum laws are ‘incoherent’ and will do ‘next to nothing’ to stop small boat crossings, IfG warnsLittle evidence to back Rishi Sunak’s claims that small boats bill will act as a deterrent, while UK lacks capacity for detention and deportation and is likely to face legal challenge, Institute for Government warns.March 12, 2023 5:00 pm
Instead the laws are likely to prove “extremely difficult” and “costly” to implement, lead to legal challenges and cause “real human harm”, the think-tank said inRhys Clyne, senior researcher and IfG report author, said: “‘A new three-word slogan does not make for a coherent – nor workable – plan, and as it stands, this legislation will do next to nothing to ‘stop the boats’.”
While the UK can deport Albanians to their country of origin, nearly half of small boat arrivals would need to be removed to other safe countries as they come from crisis-hit Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Eritrea and Sudan, the report said. It increases the chances of people being left destitute, in poverty, or in need of more acute and costly public services in the future.
There is “little evidence” that Mr Sunak’s claim that the new laws, once up and running, will prove a deterrent to further Channel crossings, the IfG said while pointing out ex-home secretary Priti Patel had to overrule her officials to introduce the Rwanda policy as the Civil Service was unable to confirm it would provide value for public money.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: “The British people rightly expect us to solve this crisis and that’s what myself and the Prime Minister fully intend to do. We must stop the boats.
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