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The Immigration and Asylum Invoice handed its second studying final week by 264 votes to 90. The Bar Council is the newest to publish a press release on why appointing lay individuals within the new unbiased immigration appeals authority is a horrible concept, and raised considerations over the chance of bias provided that the Residence Secretary will appoint the adjudicators. The Joint Committee on Human Rights has issued a name for proof and written submissions may be made right here. The deadline is 1 September.
HM Inspectorate of Prisons printed a overview of ladies’s experiences in immigration detention and the findings from mixed-sex centres are significantly regarding. Girls really feel intimidated and unsafe, and employees are usually not outfitted to help ladies with complicated backgrounds, together with survivors of gender-based violence and trendy slavery. Discovering appropriate bail lodging was one other situation, that means that girls are sometimes detained for longer than they need to be. Girls at Derwentside – the one devoted feminine facility – had extra optimistic experiences, so enhancements are potential. Girls for Refugee Girls printed a response right here.
If one damning report on immigration detention wasn’t sufficient, this one seems at short-term holding services managed by Border Power. One of the vital disturbing circumstances concerned a 16-year-old woman who was going to remain at an handle the place males had been arrested for trafficking and sexual exploitation offences. The Residence Workplace determined she was not a sufferer of trafficking and Border Power (wrongly) mentioned it wasn’t their accountability to query that call, in order that they eliminated her. Most points from the earlier inspection haven’t been addressed.
Final week on the weblog, Katherine Soroya coated the Higher Tribunal’s discovery of a ‘well-oiled’ fraudulent enterprise machine which was lodging faux judicial overview claims off the again of go to visa refusals. Not one of the candidates had any data of the proceedings and almost each doc relied on had been stolen.
We had the result of Protected Passage’s problem to the suspension of the refugee household reunion route. This was sadly dismissed and we aren’t any nearer to having something affordable in place for relations to hitch these with safety standing within the UK. The one choice underneath the present guidelines stays making use of underneath Appendix FM, which is immensely harder.
We now have a information explaining the choices for care staff when an employer’s sponsor licence is revoked and we’ve up to date our briefing on alleged deception, false data and harmless errors within the context of suitability refusals.
For every thing else on Free Motion and elsewhere, learn on.
Jasmine
What we’re studying
You can’t demand integration whereas constructing an asylum system on insecurity, Open Democracy, 15 July 2026
Immigration Invoice Second Studying: “Unfair, unsafe and unworkable” – however few Labour MPs vote towards it, Labour Hub, 14 July 2026
Man in Christmas jumper and second man jailed for endangering lives throughout Channel crossings, Crown Prosecution Service, 15 July 2026
British woman, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks resulting from new passport guidelines, The Guardian, 16 July 2026
A New Prime Minister, a New Deal: Time for an bold UK–EU pact on small boats, Migration Coverage Institute Europe, 16 July 2026
Refugee Voices in Trendy World Historical past, Refugee Research Centre, 13 July 2026
Inexperienced-Led London Council Plans to Block ‘ICE-Fashion Immigration Raids’, Novara Media, 15 July 2026
UK to proceed sending potential trafficking victims to France regardless of court docket ruling, The Guardian, 14 July 2026
‘We’re dying little by little right here’: asylum seekers at mercy of Residence Workplace lodge closures, The Guardian, 14 July 2026
