{"id":3110,"date":"2020-06-10T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/our-message-to-mps-as-they-debate-the-immigration-bill"},"modified":"2020-06-10T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:27:00","slug":"our-message-to-mps-as-they-debate-the-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/our-message-to-mps-as-they-debate-the-immigration-bill","title":{"rendered":"Our message to MPs as they debate the Immigration Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As MPs debate the Immigration Bill, we set out what needs to change:<br \/>\n1. The Home Secretary should not be given a blank cheque to write new rules.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bill gives the Home Secretary astonishingly wide-ranging powers to write new rules. But an independent review into the Windrush scandal slammed Home Office policy-making, and found in the department an \u201cunwillingness to listen to others\u2019 perspective or take on board external scrutiny, which stemmed from an absolute conviction, rather than evidence.\u201d MPs should not give the Home Secretary these \u201cHenry VIII\u201d powers.<br \/>\n2. Use this opportunity to fix some of the many issues already facing migrants.<br \/>\nThe details of the future system have not been set out, with many important questions left unanswered. The UK immigration system is already deeply dysfunctional, with huge problems in the systems for settlement and citizenship, asylum, immigration enforcement and detention. These issues need to be urgently addr&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As MPs debate the Immigration Bill, we set out what needs to change: 1. The Home Secretary should not be given a blank cheque to write new rules.\u00a0 The Bill gives the Home Secretary astonishingly wide-ranging powers to write new rules. But an independent review into the Windrush scandal slammed Home Office policy-making, and found&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}