Channel migrants to be BANNED from claiming asylum in the UK

2022-10-04

‘We need to end abuse of the rules’: New Home Secretary Suella Braverman will BAN Channel migrants from claiming asylum in the UK as she vows to stem the tide of thousands of people making the crossing this year

The new Home Secretary will seek to stamp authority on a key policy area
The number of people crossing in small boats has reached record levels
More than 33,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel so far this year

Suella Braverman will today announce plans for a new blanket ban on Channel migrants and anyone else entering the UK illegally from claiming asylum.

The new Home Secretary will seek to stamp authority on a key policy area as the number of people crossing in small boats reaches record levels.

She will will promise to allow ‘the kind of immigration that grows our economy’ but ‘end abuse of the rules’ as she addresses activists at the Conservative Party conference.

She will pledge to step up efforts to stem the flow of people risking their lives to cross the English Channel.

This includes working to increase the level of interceptions carried out by the French, providing further British support and co-operation to tackle the criminal gangs responsible, and making use of the powers in the Nationality and Borders Act to prosecute those who enter the UK illegally.

According to the Times, she will set out proposals for a bill on illegal immigration that goes further than existing legislation, the report said, adding that the law is designed to create a blanket ban on anyone who enters the UK illegally, including by small boat across the Channel, from claiming refuge.

More than 33,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year, official government figures revealed yesterday.

The new Home Secretary will seek to stamp authority on a key policy area as the number of people crossing in small boats reaches record levels.

More than 33,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year, official government figures revealed yesterday.

Data released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said 33,001 people have been intercepted making the dangerous journey across the 21-mile Dover Straits in 2022.

A total of 7,961 of those migrants arrived in September alone and this figure is expected to increase as a further 400 people crossed the Channel on Monday.

At least two Border Force vessels could be seen escorting dozens of migrants into Dover, Kent in the early hours of this morning – after battling cold and windy conditions at sea.

The migrants, which included young children, wore blankets around their shoulders as they were led along the gangway to the dockside at a former jetfoil terminal, out of sight from the public.

With the Government’s policy on sending asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda being challenged in the courts, Ms Braverman will commit to looking at new powers.

She will set out her intention to ensure that the UK’s policy on illegal immigration cannot be derailed by modern slavery laws, the Human Rights Act or the European Court of Human Rights.

Ms Braverman will tell the conference in Birmingham: ‘It’s right that we extend the hand of friendship to those in genuine need.

‘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.

‘At the same time we should use our newfound control to deliver the kind of immigration that grows our economy, for example that helps projects that have stalled or builds relationships with our friends and allies.

‘Parts of the system aren’t delivering. We need to end abuse of the rules and cut down on those numbers that aren’t meeting the needs of our economy.’

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