The Conservative party aims to amend the UK's borders bill to deport all foreign nationals receiving criminal convictions, eliminating the previous one-year prison sentence threshold. Their initiative targets all foreign criminals, including asylum seekers, and seeks to avoid European court exceptions. Critics argue this policy is impractical and feeds into harmful rhetoric against vulnerable individuals. Refugee Action's chief executive labeled the proposal as politically charged and damaging, while Amnesty International urged a reevaluation of immigration laws that violate international obligations, emphasizing the need for more humane approaches to migrants and asylum seekers.
The Tory plan would introduce an amendment to the government's borders bill that would remove the current threshold, in which foreign criminals are only removed after being handed a prison sentence of one year.
This amendment is not only terrifying, it is ludicrously unworkable and blatant political grandstanding.
These tabled amendments present an unflinchingly dog-whistle commitment to hostility for human rights and the people whose lives are most dependent on them.
Politicians must stop threatening people with the sort of hostile and extreme policies and rhetoric that only serve to inflame racial hatred and encourage violence on our streets.
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