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12-10-2008, 10:49 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093324/Back-door-amnesty-180-000-asylum-seekers-slipped-net.html
'Back door' amnesty for 180,000 asylum seekers who slipped through the net
Up to 180,000 asylum seekers are to be granted a 'back door' amnesty to live in Britain.
They include failed refugees who should have been deported, and migrants whose claims were never even concluded by the Home Office.
Instead, their files were lost or left unfinished as the asylum system went into meltdown.
Now officials are finally wading through the backlog, and have already granted more than 50,000 approvals.
Based on the current rate at which cases are being rubber-stamped, the total number to benefit from the amnesty will be around 180,000.
The approval rate is 40 per cent and rising, with all those who are successful gaining access to housing and other benefits. Local councils will be expected to find homes for many of them.
The major reason why so many of the claims are being approved is the Human Rights Act.
Under it, those who have been here for many years can claim Britain is now their home and that they no longer have links to their country of origin.
If their claims had been considered when they were first submitted, many might have been sent home.
The HRA, passed by Labour a decade ago, also prevents the removal of asylum seekers to countries where they could face torture or persecution, which is likely to apply to thousands of cases in the backlog.More people on the government's dime.
'Back door' amnesty for 180,000 asylum seekers who slipped through the net
Up to 180,000 asylum seekers are to be granted a 'back door' amnesty to live in Britain.
They include failed refugees who should have been deported, and migrants whose claims were never even concluded by the Home Office.
Instead, their files were lost or left unfinished as the asylum system went into meltdown.
Now officials are finally wading through the backlog, and have already granted more than 50,000 approvals.
Based on the current rate at which cases are being rubber-stamped, the total number to benefit from the amnesty will be around 180,000.
The approval rate is 40 per cent and rising, with all those who are successful gaining access to housing and other benefits. Local councils will be expected to find homes for many of them.
The major reason why so many of the claims are being approved is the Human Rights Act.
Under it, those who have been here for many years can claim Britain is now their home and that they no longer have links to their country of origin.
If their claims had been considered when they were first submitted, many might have been sent home.
The HRA, passed by Labour a decade ago, also prevents the removal of asylum seekers to countries where they could face torture or persecution, which is likely to apply to thousands of cases in the backlog.More people on the government's dime.