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'An absolute nightmare': Jersey refugee charities fear extra Brexit costs will end aid trips [2 mins]
10/01/2023
Each year, donations from the Channel Islands make their way across Europe to help some of the most vulnerable. / But Jersey charities say that Brexit has created an "absolute nightmare" of extra costs and added paperwork.
“Everyone here is saying to me that because of Brexit it is much easier to find safety in the UK,” one refugee said.
When we think about EU citizens and Brexit, we must factor in former refugees who’ve already faced displacement. Not only is the uncertainty inconvenient, it can be life-threatening.
Stephen Delahunty reports on a lawsuit being brought before for the courts to consider the legality of the UK-Morocco Association Agreement
Significant housing and staffing problems in the tourism sector across the strath are the result of 10 years of hostile environment policy, MP Drew Hendry insists. / He has been meeting with local operators to discuss their plight, and has spoken this week about the difficulties tourism companies now face after Brexit.
Since 1 January 2021 people seeking asylum in Europe, be they adults or children, have been far less likely to reunite with their family in the UK.
Boris Johnson ‘shredding trust’ with three breaches of international law, former top diplomat warns
28/06/2022
Boris Johnson ‘shredding trust’ with three breaches of international law, former top diplomat warns.
The government’s attack on the Human Rights Act is a betrayal of those Conservatives who helped create it.
Torture survivors and lone children stuck in Greece and Italy after Home Office ‘deliberately’ ends cooperation on family reunions. / “Before Brexit, there was a clear process for children to join their families in the UK, but since then the government has failed to communicate effectively with European authorities,” said Bethany Gardiner-Smith.
Letter from detainees urges MPs not to back nationality and borders bill to be debated in parliament this week.
Outside EU, people can no longer be returned to other European countries under legislation known as Dublin regulation.
Former Brexit secretary David Davis says Priti Patel’s plans could foster a situation similar to notorious US detention camp.
Boris Johnson urged by Board of Deputies of British Jews to support post-Brexit safeguard for child refugees
20/10/2020
MPs are expected to vote on Lord Dubs’s amendment to government’s flagship post-Brexit immigration bill on Monday
Refugees face risk of deportation under Priti Patel’s ‘cruel’ asylum overhaul, charities warn
24/03/2021
Plans to deny automatic right to asylum to refugees arriving in UK via unauthorised routes spark alarm.
France will not be ‘hostages to British domestic politics’, says interior minister.
Priti Patel accused of breaking Geneva Convention with plans to deny asylum rights to refugees crossing Channel [2 mins]
24/03/2021
Home secretary admits she is yet to secure ‘safe legal routes’ promised as alternative to harsh measures.
Boris Johnson’s real scandal: Brexit
13/07/2022
Not before time, Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. The Guardian reports that Johnson’s leadership “toppled under a wave of sleaze allegations and failure to tell the truth.” But his real scandal lies elsewhere — with Brexit.
“Take Back Control meant Keep Them Out”: Alf Dubs on how Brexit “poisoned” the UK refugee response
17/03/2022
The Labour peer, who escaped to Britain as a child, condemns the “farce” of the UK’s visa rules for fleeing Ukrainians.
Anti-Brexit campaigners used judicial review to fight prorogation of parliament – but campaigners warn reform will hurt the most vulnerable.
The Brexiteer pledge to ‘take back control’ of the UK’s borders has been exposed as hollow
14/08/2020
The supreme irony is that, despite all those Vote Leave promises, Brexit is making it harder to control UK borders.
The Home Office is preparing to end the current system of family reunification for asylum-seeking children if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the Guardian has learned.
The Home Office ... informed us that all the refugee integration services we fund via an EU grant programme would be cut immediately in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Brexit and Government hostility combine to make ‘bizarre and cruel’ system for Ukraine refugees, lawyer says
10/03/2022
Leading human rights barrister Usha Sood has condemned hostility to immigrants and Home Office bureaucracy for failing the most vulnerable victims of the Russian invasion.