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Campaigners condemn Sunak's pledge to deport asylum-seekers ‘within days’ of arrival
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel, following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture date: Wednesday January 25, 2023.
REFUGEE rights campaigners have condemned Rishi Sunak’s pledge to deport asylum-seekers “within days” of their arrival in Britain as “vindictive, dysfunctional and self-sabotaging.”
In an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, the Prime Minister said that new laws would allow the government to speed up the removal of people who enter the country without documents.
Mr Sunak said that the new legislation would prevent people who arrive “illegally” from claiming asylum and insisted that the Rwanda deportation policy would go ahead despite ongoing legal challenges.
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