United Kingdom has continued to bare its fangs against asylum seekers in other to make it the country less attractive to those who contemplate coming to the country for the purpose of international protection as provided by the international law.
The latest in the country`s effort in this direction is the attempt to deny these asylum seekers any resort to the safety of the human rights provisions under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
Inability to resort to the provisions of the ECHR will limit the ability of the asylum seekers to fight back when the UK immigration agencies decide to deport or remove them from the country.
Clariform has uncovered that this new development is following the failure of the government to relocate some asylum seekers to Rwanda recently in line with the UK Rwanda deal.
A UK government source have confirmed this much according to a report in the Telegraph, where the source indicated while referring to the Bill that:
“It’s about narrowing the circumstances under which people could claim under Article 8 and successfully challenge a deportation,” said the Government source.
Clariform have learnt that those who are been targeted by this move, are mostly those asylum seekers who enter the United Kingdome unlawfully. This includes but not limited to only those who come into the United Kingdom by small boats, especially through the English Channel.
The targets also includes those who are smuggled into the UK through big vehicles like lorries, or even through planes. The major underline indices is that they came into the country unlawfully.
This new measure by the UK government to curb the inability of these migrants to fight back any attempt to remove them from the UK through the UCHR law is to be achieved through a new legislation to be introduced next week by the UK Secretary of Justice, Dominic Raab.
The new legislation is dubbed the British Bill of Rights. The UK officials and legal experts are currently examining how this new Bill could be applied to restrict Article 8 claims to a family or private life under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
The new UK Bill will supplant the current Human Rights Act, which presently protects these asylum seekers right to resort to the ECHR even in British courts, as it currently forms part of the British law under the Brexit agreement by UK and the EU.
Therefore, the new Bill is intended to take this advantage away and also give British courts greater powers to restrict and limit the application of the ECHR. It will also limit the interventions by European judges in UK affairs, even without completely proscribing the ECHR.
Clariform reporter has uncovered that a resort to the ECHR accounts for up to 70% of the instances where asylum seekers who have been unsuccessful in their claim still thwart the attempt by the government to remove them from the United Kingdom.
Similarly, persons who are of foreign nationality but living in the UK, who have been convicted of crimes in the UK, also derive strength from the ECHR to challenge their removal from the country.
