tommytwojags
Well-known member
Some promising proposals announced by the government today to resolve this apparently insurmountable problem
- 700 new immigration staff to deal with movement of immigrants from France and to trace illegal people-smugglers.
- 50% increase in funding to deal with asylum applications
- Present £5.5m per day spent on hotel accommodation costs to be halved with more suitable accommodation at lower cost
- Double the number of case officers to result in day or weeks asylum processing instead of current months or years
-Tackling Albanian immigrants. 1/3 of all illegal immigrants are from Albania, a prosperous safe EU applicant country. To be tackled in conjunction with Albanian authorities.
- 150,000 backlog of asylum applications to be cleared by the end of 2023
Keir Starmer questions whether this time the pledges will actually be implemented. Let's hope they are because it's a shambles at the moment.
- 700 new immigration staff to deal with movement of immigrants from France and to trace illegal people-smugglers.
- 50% increase in funding to deal with asylum applications
- Present £5.5m per day spent on hotel accommodation costs to be halved with more suitable accommodation at lower cost
- Double the number of case officers to result in day or weeks asylum processing instead of current months or years
-Tackling Albanian immigrants. 1/3 of all illegal immigrants are from Albania, a prosperous safe EU applicant country. To be tackled in conjunction with Albanian authorities.
- 150,000 backlog of asylum applications to be cleared by the end of 2023
Keir Starmer questions whether this time the pledges will actually be implemented. Let's hope they are because it's a shambles at the moment.