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Labour would scrap ‘unworkable’ Tory Rwanda plan to fund National Crime Agency, says shadow immigration minister
We spoke to shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock, who has accused the government of not getting a grip on its immigration policy.
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Task force announced to clamp down on ‘crooked immigration lawyers’ who coach migrants to lie
The job of the Professional Enablers Taskforce is to root out corrupt immigration lawyers.
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UNHCR: People seeking refugee status ‘won’t have opportunity to have claim heard’ if migration bill made law
We speak to UNHCR Representative to the UK, Vicky Tennant.
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EU and Tunisia sign deal to help tackle illegal migration
Europe has also been trying to deliver on its pledge to tackle illegal migration, agreeing a new deal with the country that’s become the latest hub for people trying to cross the Mediterranean for European shores.
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Controversial Illegal Migration Bill back in parliament
The controversial Illegal Migration Bill is back in the House of Commons.
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‘Citizenship stripping laws are unjust’ – Kamila Shamsie on the UK’s ‘racist’ immigration policy
Kamila Shamsie has long been a vocal critic of the UK government’s immigration and civil rights policies, and yet she only felt able to write Home Fire – which offers a piercing critique of Islamophobia within the British political establishment – after she became a citizen of the country.
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‘Conservative incompetence on this is jaw dropping’: Shadow immigration minister on Rishi Sunak’s asylum policy
We spoke to Labour’s Shadow Immigration Minister, Stephen Kinnock.
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‘I don’t think Erdoğan is going to be pro-immigration’ says chair of international relations at Özyeğin University
What does Erdoğan’s victory mean for Turkey’s place in the world. It was no surprise that the first leader to send his congratulations was Russian President Putin – commending his “independent foreign policy”.
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Government has ‘no grip and no plan’ on immigration, says Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
We were joined by the shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
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‘This level of net migration is not sustainable,’ says former immigration minister
We spoke to Damian Green, the former immigration minister under David Cameron, and deputy Prime Minister to Theresa May and asked him if he thinks the government policy on immigration has failed.
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UK net migration hits record high
Despite saying that net migration numbers in 2022 were “too high”, Rishi Sunak today insisted that he hadn’t lost control of the immigration system.
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Children’s Commissioner for England threatens to take the government to court over illegal migration bill
The number of children absent from school has remained troublingly high since the pandemic. But for one group, the repercussions are particularly worrying.
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Illegal Migration Bill ‘deterrent’ to human traffickers, says immigration minister
We spoke to immigration minister Robert Jenrick.
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Immigration battle: government small boats policy is ‘immoral’ says Archbishop of Canterbury
The battlelines have been drawn for a major fight in the House of Lords over the government’s Illegal Migration Bill, with Justin Welby branding it “morally unacceptable”.
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MPs have spent the day debating and voting on the Illegal Migration Bill
On a day where the government was keen to claim credit for helping people escape the fighting in Sudan, it insisted that its highly controversial illegal migration bill was compassionate.