
POLICE have arrested an activist peacefully protesting against the government’s harsh new immigration law.
Tigs Louis-Puttick, founder of the migrant rights organisation Reclaim The Sea, and others protested outside the Home Office as Parliament passed the government’s Illegal Migration Bill on Tuesday evening.
The law — which top UN human rights officials have called to be reversed — will ban anyone who arrives into the country irregularly, including unaccompanied children, from seeking asylum in Britain, and seeks to deport them to a third country.

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