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Is Britain turning its back on asylum-seekers?
BETHANY RIELLY reports on the latest immigration rules, which allow asylum-seekers to be kept in ‘indefinite limbo’ and have been branded by experts as ‘completely unworkable’ and ‘inhumane’
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NEW rules that deny asylum to refugees who’ve passed through a “safe” country are “unworkable” and risk plunging the asylum system into “chaos.”
Under changes to the immigration rules, which came into effect on January 1, any person who has travelled through or has a connection with a safe third country could have their asylum case declared inadmissible.
The changes allow the government to remove asylum-seekers not only to countries they have passed through but also any state willing to accept them.
However, lawyers and refugee rights groups interviewed by the Morning Star claim the rules are “unworkable” in practice, and will only add further delays to the asylum system.
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