Priti: We can finally mend the broken asylum system
PRITI Patel has hailed the passing by Parliament of a landmark law that she vows will finally fix Britain’s ‘broken’ asylum system.
Writing in the Daily Mail, the Home Secretary says the Nationality and Borders act will crack down on ‘evil’ people-smugglers facilitating dangerous Channel crossings.
and she adds that ‘for far too long, the public has been branded racist simply for wanting controlled borders’. Her comments come after the bill finally received royal assent yesterday, having survived attempts by peers to reject key measures including the processing of refugee claims offshore.
The latest data suggests no migrants have arrived by small boat for the past ten days, after the military took charge of stopping crossings earlier this year.
But the Government’s deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is facing court challenges, as is a plan to house 1,500 asylum seekers at an old RAF base in yorkshire, despite Miss Patel insisting they will be helped to start a ‘prosperous’ new life in africa.
The Home Secretary writes: ‘Daily Mail readers don’t need to be told that the asylum system is broken. They can see the evidence with their own eyes: evil peoplesmugglers bringing migrants here illegally in small boats and on lorries; dangerous foreign criminals doing all they can to avoid being deported by putting in lastminute, meritless claims hours before they are due on the plane.’
She says the plans will speed up the process for dealing with those who claim asylum in Britain.
Miss Patel insists a new law was required to increase the maximum sentence for entering the country illegally from six months to four years, as well as introduce a life sentence for people-smugglers.
and failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals will be removed more quickly rather than being allowed to make appeal claims up until their deportation flights.