On Tuesday 21 September, Zoe Gardner, Policy Manager at JCWI spoke to MPs about the dangers of the anti-refugee Borders Bill. 17 MPs are on the Bill Committee, scrutinising the proposals line by line.
Zoe spoke to MPs about these cruel, dangerous plans, setting out how they will fail, even on their own terms. We welcome refugees. Together we must resist the anti-refugee Borders Bill.
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Here are the highlights
Will the Nationality and Borders Bill fix the broken asylum system? – Bambos Charalambous 
The short answer is no.
The government says it has two aims with this Bill – firstly, to make the asylum system ‘fairer’. But a fair system would be one that grants refugee protection based on need, not how someone travels. 
The second aim is to discourage people from using ‘irregular’ routes to claim asylum, such as crossing the Channel in a dinghy. But evidence from countries that have tried similar policies – including p…