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Protesters outside the High Court in London demonstrating against the deportation of refugees to Rwanda. Picture date: 13/06/22
A REFUGEE charity and Civil Service union are calling for a Ukraine visa-style scheme to be rolled out for other asylum-seekers as a “humane alternative” to the Tories’ Rwanda policy.
The proposal, set out in a policy paper launched in Parliament today, is to create a “safe passage visa” allowing refugees to cross the English Channel without risking their lives beforing applying for asylum in Britain.
Care4Calais and the PCS union say that their plan offers an alternative solution to the “dangerous and uncontrolled situation” in the Channel, moving away from the government’s “morally reprehensible” treatment of asylum-seekers.
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
