The Guardian view on Labour and asylum: in retreat from decency | Editorial

S.The first Sir Care Starmer procedures for becoming prime minister was to cancel the previous government plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. This was the correct decision for practical and moral reasons. It was the Rwanda scheme Failed Which was placed Britain in violating the international treaty obligations and promised to extend the shock of refugees.
The alternative policy is in favor of the Labor Party in the border security bill, and the draft asylum and immigration law, which approved its second reading in the House of Commons this week. the The proposed law It creates new police authorities to disrupt the movement of small boats that blow people through the channel. The leadership of the new border security will have the powers of such anti -terrorism operations.
There are valid justifications for policy focus on criminal gangs that manages illegal boat crossings – and put many lives in danger in this process. If this focus matches the creation of safe ways for people to search for asylum in Britain, the group will start to look like a functional system – ruthless in closing the deadly road, which is humanitarian in opening a legal system.
But the second part of this proposal is absent. Worse, the government Preserved One of the terribly impressable features of unwanted conservative policy. In directives to evaluate naturalization claims, the Ministry of Interior states that applicants who “made a dangerous trip are usually rejected.” The fact that it comes to Britain by illegal means, in the view of the official Ministry of the Interior, it should mean lack of eligibility in light of testing whether the demands are “good personality”.
This means that tens of thousands of people whose demands are recognized that they are legitimate and those who, in some cases, have settled in the United Kingdom on this basis, are prevented from becoming citizens. They will be held in the land of no man. This is not the same conservative statute that prevented small boat passengers from submitting claims in the United Kingdom – and thus violating the United Nations refugee agreements, which stipulates that the entitlement to the haven is not conditional on the means of access in a safe haven. But there is now a lower difference between exhaustion And Tory approach what he promised.
The conservatives justified their policy with deterrence theory. The withdrawal of the possibility of resorting was supposed to discourage people from carrying out the trip, although there was no evidence for this such effect. The undeclared motivation was the hope that obstruction would like the voters who were giving up the conservatives in order to reform Nigel Faraj in the United Kingdom. It looks like the Labor Party, which faces a similar electoral challenge, has inherited The same nervousness.
the Conservatives It has developed a bad policy that discovers the importance of illegal immigration as an issue without convincing anyone that their methods were sufficient to deal with it. Sir Kiir repeats this error. The error can be doubled. Reform will not be neutralized by inflating more topics of their favorite campaign by the Ministry of Interior, while many supporters of the Labor Party will be terrifying. It may not be possible to design a asylum system that satisfies everyone, but a practical and humanitarian system will get more support from the no system. Sir Care seemed to understand this in the opposition. It is an insight into the government’s abandonment.