LONDON: The British government will propose plans on Tuesday to place asylum seekers in offshore detention centers and arrest those who come by boat on English channels, policies that international laws are said to protect the refugees.
The plan, called Bill Citizenship and Borders, is expected to be caused by Priti Patel, English home secretary, for the first reading in parliament on Tuesday.
This is the latest step introduced by the government to “improve damaged asylum systems,” because the head office describes it in a statement.
Patel, wrote in the newspaper The Daily Mail before Bill’s introduction, described the proposal to “create a new crime to enter the country illegally, giving border power more scope to carry out arrests, and we will increase prison sentences for those who do it illegally .
“The plan is, if it comes into force, will put the British in the Danish company, which recently issued a law that allows offshore detention of refugees, and Australia, which has placed similar steps.
Andy Hewett, the Head of Advocacy for the Refugee Council, who works with refugees in the UK, said new policies would basically create a system that criminalized anyone who came in the country in an irregular way.
Michelle Pace, a professor in a global study at Roskilde University in Denmark and a colleague at Chatham House, a British Tank think, noted that any policy involving the expulsion of asylum seekers would violate the Convention on the 1951 UN refugee, which was Australia, England and Denmark is a signatory.
London time reported last week that representatives from the head office have met with Danish officials about the potential of cooperation at the processing center abroad, maybe in Rwanda, although the report has not been independently verified.
Advocates for refugee rights condemning the plan, saying that the bill is basically contrary to the rights of asylum seekers under international law and do a little to overcome other problems in the asylum process, quoting as examples of large backlogs in applications and conditions that do not Humane processing center available.