UK Home Office

The Home Office must take this as an urgent wake-up call.

This news is deeply distressing but tragically comes as no surprise. 

This latest outbreak only adds to the sense that Home Office ministers have lost all sight - or indeed just don’t care - for the people involved.

The reason people are putting themselves in serious danger with these Channel crossings is that there are simply no safe alternatives open to them.

If the Home Secretary truly wished to fix the UK's asylum system, she would start by ending this repeated scandal of holding people

Making yet another agreement to pay France to deter and prevent people reaching UK shores is not going to make anything better or anyone safer.

Criminalising people just for trying to reach a place of safety is morally and legal indefensible.

This shockingly-bad bill will fatally undermine the right to asylum - both in the UK and elsewhere.

It appears yet again, the Home Office plans to make unworkable laws, spend huge amounts of taxpayers’ money and take a shockingly cruel approach to people seeking asylum.

New statistics published today by the Home Office show that immigration rules introduced by the Home Secretary last December have led to more than 1,500 people who have sought asylum in the UK being warned the Home Office is looking to send them to other countries. Although there are no agreements in place for those countries to accept responsibility for their asylum claims. To date, none of these people have been removed from the UK.

The Home Office should not be making people homeless – it is cruel. To evict vulnerable people during a pandemic beggars belief and it shows an appalling lack of concern for the lives and welfare of people and communities.

After alarms have been raised repeatedly about health concerns at Napier Barracks - not least the possibility of coronavirus ravaging through the camp - it’s almost unbelievable that the Home Office is now seemingly intent on sending more people there.

After months of Government briefings that have consistently sought to fault anyone but the Home Office for its manifest failings, today’s announcement is nothing short of what we expected.

It’s deeply concerning that in a country like the UK, which receives very few people seeking asylum, the Government continues this utterly reckless discussion about finding another country to carry out its responsibilities.

Not only will the 'new' asylum rules lead to more injustice, it will continue a cycle of inefficiency and scapegoating from a department that has never taken responsibility for its own failures.

Eight ways in which the government's Nationality & Borders Bill will make the UK asylum system worse.

The failings of Home Office systems are more exposed than ever now that EU membership has ended. Urgent changes are needed to secure the dignity and rights of people affected by these systems.

The Home Office has published what it calls a New Plan for Immigration and launched a six-week consultation on the proposals in that plan. This consultation is not fit for purpose. But Amnesty will respond because the subject matter is so important and so much of what is proposed will be so harmful. This is a guide to our responses.