Yvette Cooper pauses new refugee family reunions in fresh asylum crackdown
Yette Cooper explained their plans to suspend all new practices under the re -merger of the refugee family as part of a series of measures to clean the shelter and shorten the number of people passing the channel.
Changes mean that refugees will be met by the same family While preparing a new, more difficult frame for family reunification, migration rules and conditions like everyone else.
Refugees will now have to apply through the standard family plan, which is valid for British citizens. This requires that their foreign partners can make £ 29,000 annually in common before joining them in the UK.
On Monday, a statement at Commons, a summer, announced that a new independent organ would be created to accelerate the asylum appeals of the internal secretary after a summer recess with an increase in the anger of the people in migration, and that this month would begin under the agreement of the first returns of small boats.
At the family meeting, more comprehensive reforms will be summarized in a statement later this year and that it will be implemented by Spring, and that the gangs using people used the rules of the family meeting to promote illegal transitions to England.
However, refugee charities condemned the changes and said, lar They would push more desperate people into the arms of the smugglers to come together with their loved ones ”.
Until June 2025, there was a visa of a 20,817 refugee family meeting. In the last decade, 92 percent of them have been given to women and children with refugee family.
Steve Smith, CEO of Care4Calais, said: “We hear screams that are forever screams that refugees seeking protection should be done through official channels, but here the government has restricted the last safe route for women and children.
He continued: “closing the hope of the reunion of the family, more women and children, the channel, including risking their lives, including, will force dangerous journeys to seek shelters.”
Meanwhile, the CEO of the Refugee Council Enver Solomon said: “So far, the family reunion has been one of the only safe and legal ways to allow refugees who escaped from war and persecution to reunite with their wives and children.
“Rather than stopping people who make dangerous journeys to pass the channel, these changes will push more desperate people into the arms of smugglers to reunite with your loved ones.”
And the British Red Cross said that the suspension of refugee family reunification applications would be a “destructive effect ve and said that“ families will separate and cut one of the only safe and managed ways to protect children ”.
The organization said, “The majority of people using visas of the family meeting are children and women – usually stuck in very dangerous situations,” he said.
Summarizing the reason for making changes, the Minister of the Interior, Pandemik argued that the new account was waiting for a protection to transfer their families before the refugees.
However, a month after refugee protection is given, applications are made, but some refugees still make applications for hotel accommodation – something that pressure on the homelessness accommodation provided by local authorities, he said.
The dissatisfaction of how the government manages the crisis of small boats and hosting immigrants in hotels led to a wave of protests during the summer and criticism of Labour’s political opponents.
After Bell Hotel in EPPING, ESSEX became the focus of various demonstrations and counter -protests in recent weeks after being accused of sexual harassment last month. He rejected the charges.
The Minister of the Interior said the government has restructured sites, tightened the accommodation test and is working to define more appropriate accommodation and work to clean the accumulated work.
Orum I understand and accept local councils and communities that want to be closed in their communities, because we need to close all shelter hotels and we need to do this well, but this should be done in a controlled and regular way and does not return to the chaos of the previous government, which leads to the opening of hotels in the first place. ”
Sir Keir Starmer said that people have taken their concerns about migration “completely ve and wanted to accelerate their efforts to evacuate shelter before the next election.
At the end of the parliament, which may be late until 2029, the government has now committed to hosting immigrants, but on Monday, the Prime Minister, who spoke with BBC 5Live on Monday, claimed that he wanted to “bring it forward”.
Cooper also said how the government’s eight articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to family life) were used to justify illegal immigrants in the UK in court cases.
Former workers’ home secretaries, Lord Blunkett and Jack Straw, come in the midst of increasing calls from a series of high -profile figures, to rethink the government’s relationship with AIBR or to leave the meeting completely.
However, the ministers insisted that the UK was connected to the ECHR despite their plans to change.
Ms. Cooper said that the government’s proposed reforms will change the way of interpretation of eight eight items of the ECHR: ız We must be clear that international law is important.
“Because they know that we can make these new agreements with France to return people coming to small boats, to stop the storage of small boats by small boats by criminal gangs and to make new agreements with other European countries to make new agreements to explore bars and partnerships.
“However, we need to interpret international law to follow the realities and difficulties of today’s world.”
However, Shadow House Secretary Chris Philp said that the rules of “fine -tuning” will not be enough to cope with illegal migration.
“This is not only a border security crisis, but also a public security crisis and the country’s up and down people are angry. So they protest.”
“If this government was serious about solving this problem, they would know that small fine tuning and not enough.”
