Suella Braverman dreams of a flight to Rwanda because it could never come true
The UN has suggested the government deportation plan is illegal – and it’s being challenged in the High Court.
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EU migration has plummeted since Brexit
Since the 2016 EU referendum, European migration to the UK has fallen by 72 per cent.
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Quietly, our Brexit government is learning to love immigration – just not migrants
More people are coming to the UK than before the EU referendum, and ministers are filling jobs with foreign workers.
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Rishi Sunak’s rightwards dash has destroyed what reputation he had left
The former chancellor could have fought an honourable campaign. Instead he’s led an illiberal arms race.
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How the Home Office detained thousands of potential trafficking victims
Even when people are referred to the UK’s modern slavery framework, they may still be held.
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Police report hundreds of crime victims a month to immigration service
Victims of child abuse and domestic violence face possible deportation, as revealed in data seen by the New Statesman.
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Back in Time for Birmingham tells the story of immigration in postwar Britain
For all its banalities, the BBC’s warm-hearted recreation of the lives of previous generations of British Asians is welcome, even…
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“No justification” for suspending rights of migrant abuse victims, peers say
Article 59 of the Istanbul Convention insists no woman should have to remain in an abusive relationship to keep residency.…
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Sending refugees to Rwanda doesn’t even make economic sense
Deportation costs seven times what it would to process migrants in the UK.
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Will our “war on nature” ever end?
Fifty years after the Stockholm environment conference, research shows protecting nature is vital to save human lives and livelihoods.
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The new visa route for graduates is a con
How can it be portrayed as pro-immigration when it doesn’t recognise universities in Africa?
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EU’s generosity to Ukrainian refugees should be a model for asylum
Europe’s response to the Ukraine crisis shows up the double standard applied to black and brown asylum seekers.
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Brexit isn’t merely pointless — it is failing on its own terms
Public concern about immigration to the UK may be down, but it has always been a surrogate question to living…
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You know you’ve gone too far on immigration when even Theresa May is appalled
The champion of the “hostile environment” policy has refused to support Priti Patel’s latest wheeze “on the grounds of legality,…
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Why send economic migrants to Rwanda when Britain needs them?
It’s not just immoral — we’re paying Rwanda to take working-age people that our ageing population needs.
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Behind Priti Patel’s citizenship fees are children left in limbo
Thousands of vulnerable children born in Britain are denied a passport and the same opportunities as their friends because they…
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Will Ukraine be the source of Europe’s next migrant crisis?
Up to 1.5 million Ukrainians were internally displaced by Russia’s 2014 invasion of the country.
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Emmanuel Macron doesn’t plan to let the right monopolise anti-immigration sentiment
In calling for stronger external borders around the Schengen Area, the French president is making a political argument.
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Proof clauses in borders bill “threaten women fleeing abuse”
Peers and campaigners say the “iniquitous” legislation would lead to women and girls wrongly being denied asylum.
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Welcoming Hong Kongers will help reset the UK’s approach to immigration
The government’s openness to Hong Kong nationals shows that controlling immigration need not always mean less immigration.
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