Priti Patel told to stop lying about refugees by UN agency
Hate face: would you trust Priti Patel with a duty of care over any human beings at all?
Priti Patel should stop lying that refugees from foreign countries arriving in the UK are merely “economic migrants” looking for a bit of easy money.
That’s the gist of a report by the United Nations’ refugee agency:
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) told the Guardian that those travelling by small boat to the UK should be considered to be asylum seekers or refugees, and not migrants.
“Based on currently available Home Office data, UNHCR considers that a clear majority of those recently arriving to the United Kingdom by boat are likely to be refugees. Refugees and asylum seekers are not, and should not be described as, ‘migrants’,” the spokesperson told the Guardian.
“Access to asylum should never be contingent on mode of arrival or nationality. Equally, the only way to establish whether people are refugees is through a fair and efficient determination of their claims, for which the UK has a clear responsibility.”
The intervention comes as the Home Office prepares to deport the first set of people to Rwanda, after Patel announced her intention to emulate a failed Israeli plan to do the same that was wound up a few years ago.
The policy is explicitly focused on people who arrive via so-called “irregular” routes, such as in small boats across the Channel or hidden in lorries.
Here’s the part of the Home Office statement referring to this (that isn’t waffle):
“Only those with inadmissible asylum claims who have made dangerous, unnecessary and illegal journeys will be relocated and to suggest otherwise is wrong.”
Inadmissible in what way?
Because they arrived by an “irregular” route? Who defines what is an “unnecessary” journey and what are their criteria?
Are they as described by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees? If so, is the UK breaking UN rules again, as it did with sick and disabled benefit claimants?
And will the Tory government get away with it yet again, after the UN proved utterly toothless in effecting change?
Source: Clear majority of people crossing Channel are refugees, says UNHCR
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Someone should remind Patel that HER PARENTS were, using her description, economic migrants or, to use another of her own description of others, illegal immigrants. Is her memory selective or what!
In the middle of this nonsense, an (admittedly fictitious) illegal Peruvian boat stowaway is invited to have tea with the Queen, the same one who was praised and fawned over by Mayor Johnson.
– Hypocracy?