Reuters reports that according to the announcement released on Friday, the measures are part of proposed laws that will be presented to the UK parliament next week
The United Kingdom (UK) government has announced that it will introduce measures targeted at speeding up deportation of illegal migrants by restricting the power of courts to prevent the deportation.
Reuters reports that according to the announcement released on Friday, the measures are part of proposed laws that will be presented to the UK parliament next week.
Recall that the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, identified the prevention of the flow of asylum seekers and other migrants crossing the English Channel from France as a key priority for the year 2023.
It was reported that in 2022, over 45,000 migrants arrived on the southern coast of England using small boats, a 500 percent increase from two years ago. The government has projected that this number will increase to 56,000 in the current year.
Reuters quoted the British's Interior Ministry as saying in a statement that “To speed up removals, amendments will make clear that the UK’s domestic courts cannot apply any interim measure to stop someone being removed if they bring forward a legal challenge, aside from … where they are at risk of serious and irreversible harm.”
The UK’s Interior Minister, Suella Braverman, said that other changes to the law will allow undocumented migrants to be classed as adults if they refuse to undergo what the government described as “a scientific age assessment”, and permit immigration officials to search migrants’ mobile phones.
Braverman added that “The changes I am announcing today will help secure our borders and make it easier for us to remove people by preventing them from making last minute, bogus claims, while ensuring we strengthen our safe and legal routes.”
Charities supporting refugees have said that the British government is currently offering very limited options for most migrants to apply for asylum before entering the country, or to enter Britain legally with a view to making an asylum claim.
Meanwhile, the British government is also seeking to discourage illegal immigrants by deporting them to Rwanda, regardless of their origin, but so far British courts have blocked this.