Lords reject clause in bill criminalising refugees

[SydneyRover]

good lord

''Lords reject clause in bill criminalising refugees who arrive by irregular route
Attempt to classify refugees into types among four clauses in Boris Johnson’s nationality and borders bill to be voted down

Boris Johnson’s nationality and borders bill has suffered four defeats in the House of Lords, including the removal of a crucial plank of the government’s immigration strategy that would have criminalised refugees who arrive in the UK through an irregular route.

Clause 11 of the bill would have allowed refugees to be divided into two classes based on how they arrived in the UK. Peers voted by 204 to 126, defeating the clause by a majority of 78.

If the clause had remained, people who made their own way to the UK would be given an inferior form of protection with more limited rights, compared with those who arrived through government-sanctioned routes.

It meant that anyone arriving in the UK by an illegal route, such as by a small boat across the Channel, could have their claim ruled as inadmissible, receive a jail sentence of up to four years, have no recourse to public funds, and could have their family members barred from joining them''

[selby]

  While you are paying your taxes in Australia that will be alright for you then Syd, but it doesn't sit that well with a lot of people in this country who have to pick the tab up buddy, not when the majority have been economic migrants paying thousands of pounds to get here.
  And the genuine refugee's from the Ukraine escaping tyranny have nothing to thank them for making it more difficult for them, which I find disgusting.

[BradwellRover]

I’m genuinely ashamed to be British nowadays.

We let billionaires get away with tax avoidance, let oligarchs corrupt our political system, let our politicians do what they want, but god help a poor person try to make a better life for themselves by coming here.