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A group of people are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, onboard the RNLI Lifeboat following a small boat incident in the Channel
PRITI PATEL’S attack on asylum rights has suffered a second round of setbacks in the House of Lords, with campaigners saying that the defeats show her legislation to be “unworkable.”
Peers rejected Tory plans to divide asylum-seekers into two classes based on their means of arrival in Britain, as well as a proposal to criminalise the act of arriving in the country without permission.
They also voted down a measure in the widely condemned Nationality and Borders Bill that would open the door to offshore processing of asylum-seekers.
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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
