UK moves to copy Australia's cruel asylum-seeker policy – and it will have the same heavy human toll
- Written by Michelle Foster, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
The United Kingdom’s Illegal Migration Bill, introduced in the House of Commons this week, will look very familiar to Australians.
If passed, the bill would see asylum seekers who arrive in the UK without a visa deemed “illegal” and prohibited from applying for protection under the refugee system. Any claim for protection will be...
