Friends criticise immigration bill
'QARN has also recently joined fifty organisations in writing to the Joint Committee on Human Rights seeking an urgent inquiry into the use of hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.'
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has backed criticisms of the government’s controversial immigration bill, urging it to be withdrawn.
Posting on its website. QARN highlighted a statement from Migrant Watch criticising the proposals to make anyone who crosses the Channel or ‘enters the UK illegally’ inadmissible for asylum claims or humanitarian protection. Putting them in a detention centre would be ‘a considerable change’ and breaking the Refugee Convention, it said, while subjecting them to ‘a distressing and interminable limbo’.
London School of Economics figures suggest that nearly half of those of who crossed the Channel in 2022 in small boats came from just five countries (Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Eritrea and Sudan).
Three of those nationalities currently have asylum grant rates of nightey-eight per cent and the other two are eighty-four per cent and eighty per cent.
QARN has also recently joined fifty organisations in writing to the Joint Committee on Human Rights seeking an urgent inquiry into the use of hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Sheila Mosley, a QARN steering group member, said: ‘There are massive concerns about these children being in hotels which are an adult environment.
‘The traffickers are circling these children and they disappear into a culture of domestic servitude, sex work and working in the drug trade.’
Since July 2021, 4,600 children have been placed in these hotels despite warnings that it risks exposing them to sex offenders.
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