If You Come Here Illegally, You’ll Be Removed: PM Sunak Hard Stance To Stop Channel Migrants

The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has announced a new plan to stop the surge of illegal migrants coming into the nation. While issuing a warning, UK PM Sunak said that those who enter the nation illegally will not be allowed to claim asylum.

No to illegal migrants: UK PM Sunak

Taking to Twitter, British PM Sunak wrote, “If you come here illegally, you can’t claim asylum. You can’t benefit from our modern slavery protections. You can’t make spurious human rights claims and you can’t stay.

Adding further, he said, “We will detain those who come here illegally and then remove them in weeks, either to their own country if it is safe to do so. Or to a Safe Third Country like Rwanda and once you are removed, you will be banned as you are in America and Australia from ever re-entering our country.”

PM Sunak has called the illegal migrant bill, the draft law will crack down on those crossing the English Channel in small boats.

Taking notes from the draft law, the interior minister Suella Braveman is set to get a new legal duty to deport all migrants entering illegally into the country or across the Channel, trumping their other rights in UK and European human rights law.

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‘Situation is neither moral nor sustainable’

Moreover, the prime minister said, “The current situation is neither moral nor sustainable. It cannot go on.”

“And it’s devastatingly unfair on those who most need our help, but can’t get it as our asylum system is being overwhelmed by those travelling illegally across the channel,” he added.

According to the reports, in 2022, over 45,000 migrants arrived on the shores of southeast England on small boats, resulted in 60 per cent annual increase on a perilous route that has grown in popularity every year since 2018.

Rights groups and opposition parties have criticized the new law and say that the plan is unworkable and unfairly scapegoats vulnerable refugees.

The UK has already tried to implement deportations, last year introducing a program to relocate some asylum seekers to Rwanda. However, no flights to Rwanda have left the UK yet after the plan was grounded in June last year by an injunction from the European Court of Human Rights.