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People walking past tents housing asylum seekers near to the European Parliament Liaison Office, in Dublin, April 29, 2024
AMNESTY International has condemned the row between Westminster and Ireland over asylum-seekers as an “unedifying spectacle.”
Over the weekend, Ireland and Britain were divided on a post-Brexit EU deal to allow asylum-seekers whose applications are “inadmissible” to be returned to Britain and vice versa.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee said there was a significant increase in the number of asylum-seekers arriving in Ireland from across the six-counties border.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum