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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Bancroft

Small boats bill ‘will force hundreds of thousands into immigration limbo’, charity claims

PA

Suella Braverman’s immigration plan will leave hundreds of thousands of failed asylum seekers living in limbo at a huge cost to the taxpayer because they can’t be deported, new analysis has claimed.

In the first three years of legislation coming into effect, up to 260,000 people, including 40,000 children, will have their asylum claims rejected, the charity Refugee Council has estimated in a wide-ranging analysis of the government’s Illegal Migration bill.

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