UK Refugee Crisis Deepens: Charities Slam Government Over Harsh Asylum Rules | APT - video Dailymotion

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The UK government has announced its most sweeping asylum policy overhaul in decades — but refugee charities warn it won’t stop migrants from coming and could tear communities apart.  Key changes include making refugees wait up to 20 years to settle permanently and giving the government more control over who can stay in the UK. Campaigners say the policy risks retraumatizing people fleeing danger, creating a two-tier society, and overwhelming charities already stretched thin.  #UKRefugeeCrisis #AsylumSeekers #ImmigrationUK #RefugeeRights #LabourGovernment #HumanRights #MigrationCrisis #RefugeeAction #RAMFEL #SocialCohesion

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00:00if they're applying for work or if they're trying to find stable housing or if they're even for

00:13example trying to get housing for themselves in the long term this will impact how they achieve

00:19those things and and they will constantly need to prove their needs for protection to be able

00:25to have stable peaceful lives time and time again with the you know the rwanda policy with um bb stuck

00:46on barge with the most more recent one-on-one-out policy um time and time again we saw that these

00:52policies don't actually stop people from coming here because people have no idea what these policies

00:57are before coming here they're coming here because they have family members they're coming here because

01:02they have um historical ties because they are from commonwealth countries and they have language ties

01:08with the united kingdom

01:10and it risks re-traumatizing people who have escaped great danger

01:33um it also creates a two-tier society where some people will feel that they belong and others will

01:40will feel that they do not belong

01:42yeah so the announcements uh that the labour government have made today will definitely make

02:07people's lives worse in the uk they will make it far harder for people to establish themselves in

02:13their new communities and it will definitely harm social cohesion by making it very clear to these

02:18people that the government of the day does not welcome them here

02:21nobody gets into the water unless it is safer than what's on land if the government wants to stop

02:40people taking dangerous journeys then they need to create safe routes there are all sorts of ways they

02:44can do that whether it is introducing a refugee visa that can be applied for from overseas or expanding

02:51family reunion routes so that it is it is easier for refugees family members to safely secure visas

02:57and travel to the uk with those visas

03:12it will create a huge amount of additional work that we and other voluntary sector organizations

03:17just cannot cope with because we do not have sufficient resources

03:21by pointing out that we absolutely understand

03:26not the end of the matter

03:29because these people are in the first persecution in their country

03:37so

03:53we just have to ask you a question

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