The British government today unveiled what it says is the biggest reform of asylum rules in decades, saying the current system is “overwhelming. The new rules will make it more difficult for refugees to stay in the country illegally, which Home Secretary Patel said is a tough but fair system.
Priti Patel said the New Plan for Immigration would be “based on genuine asylum needs, not on the ability of people smugglers to pay. “The New Plan for Immigration
The reform plan focuses on identifying genuine asylum seekers, deterring illegal entry and changing rules to make it easier to deport people who have “no right” to stay in the U.K.
Bartels told the BBC, “We are considering options on how to reform the whole asylum system, which is quite important for people fleeing persecution in terrible parts of the world.”
Bartel noted, “We have to break this pattern of human trafficking, we have to implement provisions that are safe and legal and in fact must be able to help genuine asylum seekers so that they can not only be free from persecution but also settle in the UK.”
But British Red Cross chief executive Mike Adamson called the program “inhumane. He said, “We should not judge whether someone is worthy of asylum by the way they arrive here.”
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