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Migrants disembark from a British Border Force vessel as they arrive at the Port of Dover, in Dover, Britain, December 29, 2024. REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe/File Photo

5 ways Britain plans to overhaul its asylum system

November 21, 2025 3:50 pm

The new changes come amid rising support for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, fuelled by public frustration over successive governments’ inability to curb unauthorised small-boat crossings in the English Channel and concerns about hotels being used to house asylum seekers.

After Trump’s UN speech, US wants other countries to join crackdown on asylum claims

September 26, 2025 1:21 am

‘Uncontrolled migration’ to Europe was one of the main talking points of US President Trump’s UN General Assembly address.

UK government plans independent body to speed asylum appeals

August 25, 2025 2:49 pm

This is aimed at accelerating returns of those not entitled to asylum and ending hotels to house asylum-seekers awaiting a final decision on their appeals, an issue that has attracted large protests and counter-protests in parts of the country.

Aspects of US restrictions on asylum-seekers may violate international protections: UNHCR chief

June 14, 2024 12:07 am

The UNHCR report found that the cumulative number of people who have been subjected to forced displacement rose to 120 million last year — 6 million more than in the year before.

Ireland aims to enact legislation on returning asylum seekers to UK by end of May

May 01, 2024 12:24 am

Justice Minister Helen McEntee said on Tuesday that Ireland had not returned anyone to the UK under the 2020 agreement because it had been suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequently faced a legal challenge.

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Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers; more refugees came anyway

September 02, 2023 6:36 pm

The total number of refugee claims made in Canada rose in July to 12,010 - the highest monthly total since at least January 2017 - and up from 10,120 in March, according to data from the immigration, refugees and citizenship department.

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A man who attacked 2 girls with a knife in Germany and killed 1 is sentenced to life in prison

July 04, 2023 3:49 pm

The man attacked with a knife the two girls on their way to school last December in the southwestern town of Illerkirchberg. A 14-year-old girl died and her 13-year-old friend was able to escape.

UK court rules plan to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful

June 29, 2023 3:46 pm

Announcing the Court of Appeal's decision, three senior appeal judges ruled, by a majority, that Rwanda could not be treated as a safe third country

Asylum-seekers hope Djokovic’s stay at hotel will help their cause

January 08, 2022 12:30 pm

The hotel has been criticised in the past for being a below-average option to detain refugees entering Australia.

US to restart Trump-era border program forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico

December 03, 2021 2:47 pm

🔴US President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has struggled in his first year in office to reverse many hardline immigration policies put in place by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, and is facing a record number of migrant arrests at the US-Mexico border.