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- Migrants convicted of sexual offenses will be denied asylum in the UK due to a change in the law aimed at improving border security and protecting communities from dangerous individuals.
- Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stated that sex offenders who pose a risk to the community should not benefit from refugee protections in the UK.
- An amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill sets a 24-week target for immigration tribunal decisions to reduce the asylum backlog.
- The government plans to crack down on bogus immigration lawyers, allowing fines of up to £15,000 for those not properly registered.
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Rajiv Shah: Interpretation of the law, rather than the law itself is stopping us from dealing with criminal refugees
Rajiv Shah was a legal special adviser to the previous Conservative Government. Article 33(1) of the Refugee Convention creates the most important right there is in it: it protects an individual from being sent back to a country where they will face persecution. International lawyers call this the principle of non-refoulement. However, the drafters of the Refugee Convention – generally conservative men who had seen the horrors of WWII – understo…
UK To Bar Foreign Sex Offenders From Receiving Asylum Protections
The government's Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill will be amended to deny refugee status to any foreign national with a criminal conviction that qualifies them for the sex offenders register.
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