Why does the Mail like some Afghan asylum seekers more than others?
Calling for a consistent policy is admirable. Pitting claimants against each other is not.
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Times publishes Migration Watch chair calling for deportation deal with Syria’s Assad
Lord Green of Deddington has some novel solutions to the Calais crisis
Memo to the press on Med crisis: UK rejected 72 per cent of asylum claims this year
Is Britain too generous as the Daily Mail implies? Not according to the data
Latest migration statistics show the UK Border Agency is still not fit for purpose
The latest migration statistics show the UK Border Agency is still not fit for purpose; where there are failings, the home secretary must be held to account.
Another blow for Gillard as High Court rules refugee “swap” deal illegal
Australia’s Labor prime minister Julia Gillard suffered a further blow today with the High Court ruling the controversial Malysia asylum seeker “swap” deal illegal.
Asylum system a long way from crisis
If the media could stop seeing asylum as a peculiarly UK problem, there might be more chance we could participate in international solutions, says Matt Cavanagh.
Coalition must stop making undeliverable promises on immigration
The coalition are starting to pray the price for making unrealistic promises on immigration and asylum, Ruth Grove-White explains
Campaigners fear child detention coalition back track
Campaigners have raised serious concerns over the Coalition’s shifting policy on child detention and whether the practice will continue in all but name.
Time for coalition to deliver on child detention pledge
The goverenment has postponed its pledge to end the detention of the children of asylum seekers until May; it is up to progressives to ensure that they deliver.