Home Office says past ‘hesitancy’ over removal of families and children of failed asylum seekers was wrong – live

Labour MP calls government’s asylum plans ‘dystopian’ amid backlash over ‘cruel’ policy

Momentum, the leftwing Labour group, has also denounced the government’s asylum plans. In a statement it says:

The home secretary’s new immigration plans are divisive and xenophobic.

Scapegoating migrants will not fix our public services or end austerity.

Draconian, unworkable and potentially illegal anti-asylum policies only feed Reform’s support.

The government has learnt nothing from the period since the general election.

Some of the legal changes being proposed are truly frightening:

Abolishing the right to a family life would ultimately affect many more people than asylum-seekers.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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