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CAMPAIGNERS are set to appeal after losing a High Court bid to force the Home Office to increase the number of unaccompanied child refugees accepted under the Dubs scheme.
The Help Refugees charity argued yesterday that the consultation process was “fundamentally flawed” because it was based on Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s calculation that just 480 should be allowed into Britain.
The Dubs amendment to the 2016 Immigration Act has, from May last year, required the Home Secretary to relocate from Europe “a specified number” of vulnerable refugee children.
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
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