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Articles tagged with: Immigration

Greggs Has Shortages Of Chicken Products As It's Hit By The Supply Chain Crisis

Exclusive: Greggs is the latest high-profile food outlet to be affected by supply chain disruption, with the bakery chain dealing with shortages of chicken-based products.

24 Aug Coronavirus

People Strongly Support Relaxing Immigration Rules To Tackle Lorry Driver Shortage

Exclusive: The public strongly supports the government relaxing immigration rules for European lorry drivers to abate the labour shortage that is causing empty supermarket shelves, a poll for PoliticsHome has found.

13 Aug Home affairs

Human Rights Organisation Says Home Office Risks Losing Public Backing Over "Cruel" Deportation Flights

A Home Office deportation flight to Jamaica this week was a “watershed” moment for the UK’s approach to removing foreign-born criminals, according to human rights campaigners who say the public got to see the cruelty and chaos of this strategy played out in real time.

13 Aug Home affairs

Home Office Is Planning To Build Asylum Accommodation Centres For 8,000 People

The Home Office has been accused of "warehousing people" after initiating plans to construct new purpose-built accommodation sites across the UK, capable of housing up to 8,000 asylum seekers.

10 Aug Coronavirus

Labour Urges Government To Revisit Immigration Rules To Tackle Lorry Driver Crisis

Exclusive: The government is facing growing pressure to relax the UK's immigration rules amid a lorry driver shortage that industry leaders warn will get worse in the coming weeks.

29 Jun Brexit

Home Office Accused Of Risking Another Windrush Scandal Unless They Delay EU Settled Status Deadline

Labour is urging the government to extend the deadline for EU citizens applying to remain in the UK, warning they risk creating "a Windrush-style scandal" with thousands of people falling through the cracks.

24 Jun Health

Overseas NHS workers risked their lives fighting Covid, they should not have to pay for healthcare

The punitive and costly Immigration Health Surcharge for overseas healthcare workers is still charging people hundreds of pounds to use the very NHS they work in.

15 Jun Home affairs

We will never turn our back on refugees

As part of the New Plan for Immigration, refugees who are resettled to the UK will be given the stability to rebuild their lives through being granted indefinite leave to remain on arrival.

08 Jun Home affairs

The UK must be a place of sanctuary for refugees

My Bill would enable child refugees to bring their parents and siblings to join them in the UK, as well as allowing adult refugees to be joined by their children.

08 Jun Home affairs

The Home Office must replace bullying rhetoric with fair and effective immigration policies

The “hostile environment” is being unleashed on genuine refugees. If its aim was to remove failed asylum seekers, it’s not working.

24 May Home affairs

Priti Patel Says Glasgow Immigration Raid That Detained Two Men Was What The British "Voted For"

Home Secretary Priti Patel has said the Glasgow immigration raid that caused outcry in Scotland is something she would approve again and is what the “British people voted for”.

18 May Home affairs

Our broken immigration system needs to change

Fail to end the Tories hostile environment for once and for all and the scenes of Glasgow last week will soon become the scenes of Manchester, Birmingham, London or Cardiff.

14 May Home affairs

Pressure Is Piling On Unite To Investigate Howard Beckett Over Priti Patel Tweet

The UK’s largest trade union Unite is in turmoil today as pressure grows on the organisation to investigate assistant general secretary Howard Beckett over his Tweet that the Home Secretary should be deported.

20 Apr Transport

Border Guards Don’t Know How Many Fake Covid Test Certificates Are Used To Get Into UK

The number of people entering the UK with a fake negative Covid test is “inherently unknowable” and the current immigration system is “based on trust”, say border staff.

24 Mar Communities

Priti Patel Accused of "Empowering" People Smugglers With Latest Immigration Proposals

The government's latest immigration plans will create a "more chaotic, dangerous and fragmented" asylum system, leading charities have warned.

24 Mar Home affairs

Priti Patel Insists New Asylum Seeker Plans Do Not Break International Law

Priti Patel has defended new immigration rules which make harder for people to claim asylum if they arrive in the UK illegally, following criticism from charities working with asylum seekers.

18 Mar Home affairs

Gibraltar And Isle Of Man Reject “Inhumane And Ridiculous” Plans To Host UK Asylum Processing Centres

Both Gibraltar and the Isle of Man have roundly rejected reports they will host proposed new asylum processing centres as part of a shake-up of UK immigration policy.

16 Feb Home affairs

'Shocking' conditions in military barracks housing asylum seekers are unacceptable and must be urgently closed

According to asylum seekers detained at the barracks, they have no access to medication and limited access to water and electricity. With Covid spreading rapidly, urgent measures are needed to protect an already vulnerable population.

18 Dec 2020 Coronavirus

UK government’s hostile environment for migrants has been in full-force during the Covid pandemic

Migrants are disproportionately impacted by Covid, yet receive the least amount of help from the Tory government. On International Migrants Day we should reaffirm our commitment to treat migrants fairly and keep them safe.

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15 Dec 2020 Home affairs

Digital borders: time to seize the opportunity

The UK government wants the world’s most effective border by 2025, friction free yet with strong protection against threats such as crime and biosecurity. A virtual roundtable of experts discuss how to make it happen

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25 Nov 2020 Home affairs

Home Office failed to comply with equality law when implementing ‘hostile environment’ measures

A review of the Home Office’s compliance with equality legislation when implementing ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies has found that it failed to fulfil its legal duties, contributing to the serious injustices experienced by the Windrush generation.

11 Nov 2020 Coronavirus

A Man Who Says He Was Unlawfully Detained By Immigration Officers Fears He May Have Caught Covid From One Of Them

Legal representatives for a man who says he was unlawfully detained by immigration enforcement officers fear he is at risk of contracting coronavirus after one of the arresting officers tested positive.

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05 Oct 2020 Home affairs

Bar Council reaction to Home Secretary's asylum speech

Responding to the Home Secretary’s speech Fixing our broken asylum system which was delivered at the Conservative Party conference at the weekend, Amanda Pinto QC, Chair of the Bar Council, said:

30 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Downing Street Has Confirmed It Is Looking At An Australia-Style Offshore Migrant Processing Centre

Downing Street has confirmed an Australian-style system for processing migrants offshore from the UK mainland is being looked at by the government.