These plans must be opposed and an ethical alternative called for.

Overall, what is being envisioned is a punitive and hostile approach that will make genuine refugees’ insecure, separated from families, and increasingly vulnerable to forced deportation and potential prospective human rights abuses. 5/n

The use of military facilities to house asylum seekers and the expansion of enforced returns will expand a network of incarceration and deportation. 4/n

The limiting of appeals, and the restrictions of applications of human rights to a private and family life and against torture and cruel and degrading treatment, will remove safeguards against human rights abuses. 3/n

The restriction in family reunion, will deny the ability of refugee families to be together. The seizure of refugee assets will see the government taking valuable items from refugees. 2/n

The reduction in leave to remain, and restriction of routes to permanent settlement, will make genuine refugees’ situation seriously precarious in the UK, with them and their families being under continual threat of deportation. 1/n

Indeed, this shows that deaths can be preventable with the right policies!

This is positive!

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