Media Reports Archive : June 2022


Government says Linton-on-Ouse site is 'urgently needed' for asylum seeker centre after responding to legal threat

The Home Office has said it will press ahead with controversial plans to set up a centre for asylum seekers in a North Yorkshire village

30 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Yorkshire Post
SNP MP calls for asylum seekers to be given work in UK – and suggests roles in civil service

The SNP MP's proposals could see asylum seekers take up roles as HGV drivers, baggage handlers and even civil servants

30 Jun 2022 - Media Report: GB News
There's a huge new migrant issue unfolding. So why isn't there any debate about it?

Between 2011 and 2021, the population of England and Wales grew by a staggering 3.5 million

30 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Deportations of foreign murderers at record low thanks to human rights challenges

Deportations of convicted foreign rapists, murderers and robbers have fallen to their lowest numbers on record after a rise in human rights challenges

30 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Channel migrant boat pilots face life in prison under new crackdown

Migrants who pilot asylum seekers’ small boats across the Channel face sentences of up to life in prison

28 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
'Fragile' health services and GPs can't cope with influx at controversial asylum seeker centre

NHS chiefs are planning a bespoke health service for the proposed asylum seeker centre near York

28 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Yorkshire Live
Rochdale grooming gang members can't be deported from UK because of European Court of Human Rights, tribunal hears

An Immigration tribunal heard how it would be wrong to deport the two other gang members

28 Jun 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Europe's secret court exposed: OWN judge breaks cover on Rwanda flight row 'Name lawyer!'

The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly refused to say who ruled last week's maiden flight to Kigali

27 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Express
UK opens doors but race-baiting left want us to be mugs for people traffickers AMOL BHOGAL

Ultimately, with the Home Secretary taking on the bigots denigrating the success story that is a resurgent Rwanda

27 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Express
Channel migrants: Hundreds make the crossing in small boats

Five small boats with 231 migrants on board crossed the English Channel on Friday, the Ministry of Defence says

27 Jun 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Ukrainians who come to UK illegally could be sent to Rwanda, Johnson says

Ukrainian refugees face being sent to Rwanda if they travel to the UK without authorisation

24 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
British coastguard blocks a former RNLI lifeboat from rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

British coastguard officials have blocked a former RNLI lifeboat from rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

24 Jun 2022 - Media Report: iNews
Rwanda migrant plan is not 'appalling' but 'should be a deterrent', Priti Patel tells LBC

Ms Patel said no court has ruled her controversial partnership is 'unlawful'

24 Jun 2022 - Media Report: LBC
Boris Johnson 'conscious' of arriving in Rwanda before migrants as he lands at summit

Boris Johnson has said he is 'conscious' he has travelled to Rwanda before any of the Government's migrant flights have made it to the country

23 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
PM to tell Prince Charles he is 'proud' of migrant plan – which HRH called 'appalling'

Boris Johnson is prepared to declare he is “proud” of his Rwanda migrants policy during talks with the Prince of Wales on Friday

23 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Libya is key to stopping UK-bound African migrants, LBC hears

Libya is the key to stopping migrants from Africa travelling to Britain, the country’s Prime Minister-designate has told LBC

23 Jun 2022 - Media Report: LBC
After Rwanda fiasco, Britain must be ready to repeal human rights law

The situation in which unvetted people are entering the UK in their thousands has major implications for public safety,

23 Jun 2022 - Media Report: The Conservative Woman
New Bill of Rights gives Britain power to overrule European judges on migrants

A new British Bill of Rights will give the UK powers to overrule European judges on migrants.

22 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Plan to reverse European Court Rwanda rulings

The European Court of Human Rights block on sending asylum seekers to Rwanda could be overturned by ministers under new proposals

22 Jun 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Airlines use post-Brexit loophole to bring in foreign workers

The practice means they can circumvent post-Brexit immigration rules

22 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Tagging illegal immigrants is sensible, not cruel

There are now an estimated 80,000 people immigration offenders in the reporting system

21 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Priti Patel WILL challenge European ruling that halted Rwanda flight by filing submissions to Strasbourg 'imminently', court hears

Priti Patel will bid to quash the decision by European judges which led to the first Rwanda asylum flight being axed at the last moment

21 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
'We won on Rwanda': How migrants heading to UK by dinghy have been boosted by failure to deport asylum seekers to Africa

Migrants emboldened by European judges’ halting the plane to Rwanda are boasting ‘we have won’

20 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
'Can’t detain people forever in this country!' Border force chief backs Rwanda plan

THE RWANDA policy has been backed by Former Chief Immigration Officer Kevin Saunders

20 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Daily Express
Government split over Dominic Raab’s British Bill of Rights

Whitehall sources said there were “tensions across government” over parts of the Bill that deal with deportations

20 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Asylum applications hit 20-year high - but just 15 rejected in a year

Asylum applications have hit a 20-year high of more than 60,000 in the past year, but just 15 failed claimants have been removed from the UK

20 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Rwanda asylum-seekers plan: Why the ECHR intervened and what happens now

European judges blocked a British government flight to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in a last-minute move that overruled the UK Supreme Court

17 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Nigel Farage has the PM cornered over migration

Critics laughed. They’re not laughing now

17 Jun 2022 - Media Report: The Times
British Bill of Rights designed to restrain Strasbourg judges

A new British Bill of Rights would give the Supreme Court primacy over European judges by creating a specific UK jurisdiction for human rights cases

17 Jun 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Letters: For too long immigration policy has been at the mercy of liberal lawyers

The Government’s effort to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda has turned into a farce

16 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migrants landing in Britain say they will refuse to board Rwanda flights and warn policy WON'T stop them from crossing the Channel - as 590 arrive in two days taking total for this year to nearly 11,000

Nearly 600 migrants made the journey from France in the past two days

16 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Destination unknown as Rwanda plan buffeted by courts and critics

“It’s not ideal,” said one ally of Patel. “But we will carry on because we know it’s the right thing to do”

15 Jun 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Channel migrants: Hundreds make the crossing in small boats

About 250 migrants have been seen being brought ashore at Dover after crossing the English Channel

15 Jun 2022 - Media Report: BBC
The police have bowed to the mob

Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Black Lives Matter and other protest groups have shown that police forces tend to back down

15 Jun 2022 - Media Report: The Spectator
'Give up your palaces for migrants!' Tory MPs demand of Archbishop to end trafficking

The annual cost of housing asylum seekers would fund more than 5,000 nurses

15 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Daily Express
Liz Truss says Rwanda flights policy is ‘completely moral’

The foreign secretary has said the Rwanda flights policy is “completely moral” after criticism of the policy

14 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
Next stop Rwanda? More than 100 Channel migrants land in Kent bringing total to 10,131 this year... as lawyers battle to stop Africa deportation flights

More than 100 Channel migrants have landed in Kent over the weekend

14 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Terrified with her teddy: Little girl clutches cuddly toy as she's carried ashore after 80 migrants landed in Dover today... as critics say government's Rwanda plan to deter people smugglers is 'not working'

A young girl clutching a teddy bear was among the 80 migrants who landed in Dover in around three boats

8 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
The Channel migrant crisis is like an “invasion”, says William Clouston

Analysing the migrant crisis in the Channel, Mr Clouston quickly concluded that what is taking place amounts to an “invasion” of the British Isles

8 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Bournbrook
Rwanda deportation: First migrants to be sent to east African country in a fortnight, says Home Office

The government said it will deport migrants to Rwanda in two weeks on 14 June

1 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Sky News
EXCLUSIVE Inside the £46-a-night hotel in Rwanda that will house UK's illegal migrants: Asylum-seekers flown to East African nation will stay in three-star resort with swimming pool, gym, tennis court and golf course

Precise details of the 6,000-mile deportation flights are being closely guarded by the British and Rwandan governments

1 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Home Office cancels flight to deport Kurdish asylum seekers to Iraq

The Home Office has cancelled a chartered deportation flight to Iraq that was due to depart from the UK on Tuesday evening

1 Jun 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
Linton-on-Ouse: 'No decision' in controversial asylum centre plans

Linton residents had campaigned against the plans, which could eventually see 1,500 men live at the site

1 Jun 2022 - Media Report: BBC

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