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Over 100 charities call on Braverman to create safe routes for asylum-seekers
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard the Ramsgate Lifeboat following a small boat incident in the Channel

OVER 100 refugee charities are calling on Suella Braverman to create safe routes for asylum-seekers to reach Britain. 

In a letter to the new Home Secretary — reappointed by PM Rishi Sunak in a highly criticised move — charities argue that the creation of a “kind and effective system” to tackle the record asylum backlog is something “worth dreaming about.” 

Ms Braverman has been condemned for ramping up the government’s anti-refugee agenda, even professing it was her “dream and obsession” to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda.  

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