Blog: New Plan for Immigration
Blog articles from JRS UK
Why do politicians keep suggesting it’s illegal to claim asylum in the UK?
25 November 2022
William Neal highlights the Home Office Select Committee’s questioning of Suella Braverman.
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Plans for removing asylum seekers to Rwanda are cruel
26 April 2022
Sophie outlines how the Rwanda plan will make it impossible to claim safe haven in the UK.
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The Nationality and Borders Bill treats hostility as a virtue
25 November 2021
Sophie outlines how the Government's Bill further entrenches hostility in the asylum system.
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The Borders Bill will make life in the asylum system much bleaker
18 November 2021
Sophie explains how detention and detention-like asylum accommodation will be extended.
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The cruelty of slamming the door shut on those seeking sanctuary
11 November 2021
An introduction to the Nationality and Borders Bill
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The crisis in Afghanistan shows why all people seeking sanctuary need humane treatment
09 September 2021
If we are to learn from this emerging situation, we must change our whole approach to asylum
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‘My life is frozen’ – life in limbo for people seeking asylum
06 August 2021
The impact of having their lives put on hold is devastating for refugee friends
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Update on the Nationality & Borders Bill: there is much that can and must be done.
21 July 2021
Sadly, the Bill has passed the second reading, and will now progress to committee stage.
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JRS legal workshops: helping people to access justice
16 July 2021
“I only knew because JRS told me"
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“A denial of dialogue and encounter, and an absence of the need to truly understand”
01 July 2021
We are facing the creation of a system so inhuman, it will not listen to people claiming asylum
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