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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucas Cumiskey

UNHCR: Illegal Migration Bill ‘extinguishes’ most refugees’ right to seek asylum

PA Wire

The United Nations refugee agency’s representative to the UK has warned that the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill “effectively extinguishes the right to seek asylum in the UK for all but a very few refugees”.

The controversial Bill, aimed at tackling Channel crossings, returns to the House of Commons on Monday for its committee stage, and MPs will scrutinise it over two days.

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