Illegal boat migrants are reportedly being secretly given the right to work in the UK by Chancellor Rishi Sunak's so-called Conservative government, but critics say the move will only encourage more illegal immigration. I'm warning you.
Around 16,000 asylum seekers, many of whom crossed the English Channel illegally in small boats launched by people running a smuggling network off the French coast, have been allowed to work in the UK, according to data. There is. revealed Under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, telegraph paper.
nevertheless this is coming government policy It states that asylum seekers should not be able to work in the country while their application is being considered.
But the Home Office, the government agency tasked with managing immigration, has allowed some migrants to work in certain sectors of the economy said to be facing labor shortages, such as agriculture, construction and health care, the paper said. It is said that they are doing so.
The report claimed that migrants could earn 80% of the prevailing wage if they waived the state government's £49.13-a-week stipend given to asylum seekers. However, foreigners can continue to stay in government-provided accommodations under this system if they pay a portion of the cost. In 2022, a total of 19,231 immigrants applied to work under the scheme, and 15,706 applications were approved.
The plans have been criticized by Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who warned that the policy would increase the “pull factor” for illegal migrants to come to the UK.
“This is a disaster. If traffickers can advertise their work and offer free food, more people will want to come. Rwanda is completely irrelevant compared to this,” Farage said. he said.
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Mr Farage's criticism was echoed by Conservative MP Miriam Cates, one of the leaders of the New Conservative Party MPs Group, which calls for stronger immigration enforcement.
“It is understandable that asylum seekers would want to hold a job while their claim is processed,” she says. “But we cannot solve the significant problems associated with illegal immigration unless we stop people from entering the UK illegally. This is the opposite of deterrence.”
Arp Mehmet, chairman of the British think tank Migration Watch, added: “How can we take seriously the government's pledge to block the boats when such a plot is underway?”
The revelations come as Chancellor Rishi Sunak attempts to pass the final hurdle in the House of Lords for the Rwanda Bill, which the government believes will ultimately allow immigration authorities to illegally It claims it will allow boat migrants to be transferred to asylum processing centers in the east. African countries do not allow them to remain in the country while their claims are processed.
The government last week stave off a brief revolt from the Conservative right, who argued the bill did not do enough to ensure it would be bogged down in legal challenges from lawyers for illegal criminals and left-wing activists.
Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick, who resigned from the government late last year over opposition to the bill, has tabled amendments that would allow the government to ignore parts of human rights law to prevent domestic legal challenges. did. He gave his ministers the power to refuse flight suspension orders from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which controversially intervened to block the first flights to send migrants to Rwanda in summer 2022. brewed.
Prime Minister Sunak said despite the amendment being rejected by the government,ignore” is using international law to block a migrant removal flight that it hopes to begin by spring.
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