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Post by Moose on Aug 15, 2023 6:33:31 GMT
Rishi, out beloved leader, apparently appealed to the EU, to be able to return migrants who had come across the channel to the country where they first claimed asylum. The EU told him to fuck off*.
It's funny in the sense that so many people who voted for Brexit did so on an anti immigration platform. It's not funny that ... so many people who voted for Brexit did so on an anti immigration program.
*possibly not their actual words but I'd like to think that deep down that was was they meant.
((From BBC news site) The Times says the European Union has rejected attempts by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to get a new deal on returning migrants who arrive in the UK after crossing the Channel in small boats. The paper says an official at the European Commission told British officials they were "not open" to an agreement where the UK would return migrants to the EU state where they first claimed asylum.)
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Post by tangent on Aug 15, 2023 13:38:58 GMT
I can see the problem.
Before we left the EU, a migrant who claimed asylum in Greece, say, would have the same right of movement as a Greek citizen and would therefore have been entitled to move to the UK without having to apply for asylum a second time. Obviously that right has now been taken away and the migrant would now have to apply separately to move to the UK. But on what grounds? The right of asylum is granted to a migrant who is seeking refuge from persecution in another country. Since Greece is not in the habit of persecuting its inhabitants, the migrant would have no grounds for seeking asylum in the UK. In that case, the UK government would be justified in refusing him or her entry to the country. Logically, he should then be deported. But to which country? Greece would be the obvious choice since he was not being persecuted there.
I think this can only be solved by a notional deportation. If the migrant was from Somalia, he would be a Somalian citizen and the UK could then deport him back to Somalia. So the UK notionally deports him to Somalia and the migrant notionally moves back to the UK and claims asylum without moving from the spot where he is standing.
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Post by Moose on Aug 16, 2023 0:14:13 GMT
My point was, people who voted for Brexit largely did so because they thought that it would halt immigration.
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