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UN rights chief slams UK plan to ban asylum claims by Channel migrants

Migrants board a boat on the beach at Gravelines, northern France, in an attempt to cross the English Channel. AFP - SAMEER AL-DOUMY

The United Nations refugee agency has criticised a British draft law that would outlaw asylum claims by anyone arriving in the country illegally. The UNHCR has warned that such legislation could violate international law.

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said it was "profoundly concerned" by plans that would give the British interior minister a legal duty to deport all migrants entering illegally, such as those crossing the Channel from France in inflatable boats.

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