Rishi Sunak will face legal hurdles in his plan to deport asylum seekers
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New Delhi: UK’s interior minister Suella Braverman on Wednesday said that prime minster Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers arriving on British shores will face challenges in UK courts.
The Illegal Migration Bill will engage home secretary to remove anyone arriving in UK on boats to a ‘safe third country’ for instance Rwanda without hearing their claim.
But voices arising in the nation reject Sunak’s proposed law saying it will breach the United Nations convention on refugees introduced after Jewish refugees faced rejection from many countries during the Second World War.
Responding to the proposal, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said the legislation will ‘amount to an asylum ban’, nevertheless individual cases may be ‘genuine and compelling’.
“The effect of the bill would be to deny protection to many asylum seekers in need of safety and protection, and even deny them the opportunity to put forward their case,” the agency reportedly said.
Suella Braverman expressed confidence, responding to BBC, saying that the government is complying with the domestic and international law while pushing the boundaries, ‘testing innovative and novel legal arguments’.
The home secretary told MPs in writing that ‘this does not mean that the provisions in the bill are incompatible with the convention rights’.
Prime Minister Sunak said his government believes it is acting in compliance with international law, adding that there is nothing improper or unprecedented in the law to violate the Human Rights Act.
More than 3,000 people have reportedly crossed the Channel to reach UK this year, which is double as many of those crossed in 2022, setting a record at the time.