Yvette Cooper announces refugee family crackdown

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced a major crackdown on refugees bringing family members into the UK. Ms Cooper said the government is bringing forward new immigration rules "this week".  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00reforms are needed. So in our asylum policy statement later this year we will set out a new

00:05system for family migration including looking at contribution requirements, longer periods before

00:10newly granted refugees can apply and dedicated controlled arrangements for unaccompanied children

00:16and for those fleeing persecution who have family in the UK and we aim to have some of those changes

00:22in place for the spring but in the meantime we do need to address the immediate pressures on local

00:28authorities and the risks from criminal gangs using family reunion as a pull factor to encourage more

00:34people onto dangerous boats. Therefore we are bringing forward new immigration rules this week

00:41to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing dedicated refugee family reunion route.

00:48Until the new framework is introduced refugees will be covered by the same family migration rules

00:54and conditions as everyone else.

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