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The Home Secretary will promise an asylum system that is “firm and fair” when she speaks later at the Conservative Party conference.
Priti Patel will introduce a system that would see the government routinely denying asylum to migrants who cross the English Channel by boats or other “illegal routes.”
This would include immigrants paying criminal gangs or smugglers to help them reach the UK, but would create “legal routes” for those at risk of harm, he has promised.
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Patel told The Sunday Times: “Currently, everyone who comes to our country and makes an asylum claim is treated the same, regardless of the route by which they entered our country, and that is simply not correct. .
It comes after the government was widely criticized after reports surfaced that it had considered housing asylum seekers on disused oil rigs, banishing them to camps in Moldova or Papua New Guinea, or building floating walls in the sea to keep them. outside.
Ms. Patel will speak at the Conservative Party conference later and commit to the “biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades.”
She will say: “Under Conservative leadership, the UK has provided and will always provide a sanctuary when the lights of people’s freedoms go out.”
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Patel will say: “From the expulsion of Ugandan Asians from a repressive regime, to the proud resettlement of more Syrian refugees than any other EU country, to supporting activists fleeing political persecution in Hong Kong.” .
Resettled refugees are those who arrived in a new country as part of a specific plan led by that country. But most refugees come to the EU as asylum seekers, not as part of a scheme.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Germany is the only European country that accepts enough refugees to be among the top 10 refugee-hosting countries.
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Ms Patel’s new system will stop people making “endless legal claims to stay” in the UK and “speed up the removal of those who do not claim protection”.
“I will take all the steps necessary to fix this broken system, which amounts to the biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades,” Ms. Patel will say.
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“We will continue to persecute the criminal gangs that traffic people in our country.
“I will continue to use the full force of our prominent National Crime Agency and intelligence agencies to pursue them.
“We will make more immediate returns on those who come here illegally and break our rules, every week.
“And we will explore all practical measures and options to deter illegal migration.”
Government figures show there were 34,354 asylum applications in the UK in the year ending September 2019, 22% more than the previous year and the highest number since the year ending June 2016.
