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Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a visit to Greater Manchester Police HQ in Manchester, August 28, 2023.
HOME Secretary Suella Braverman is considering a new raft of punishing actions against “illegal” refugees and asylum-seekers including electronic tagging used on criminals.
Home Office officials have been instructed to investigate “all options” as government failure to process asylum claims saw the backlog rise to 170,000.
She warned of yet more anti-asylum tactics as the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) prepared legal action against the use of the Bibby Stockholm barge moored in Dorset to house 500 asylum-seekers, saying the barge is a “potential death trap.”
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
