City centre serial sex predator branded dangerous and jailed
- 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.
Sex offenders to be denied refugee protection in UK under law change
The new measure will be introduced in an amendment to the Government’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.
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