Key Problems with Nationality and Borders Bill
This presentation highlights key issues with the Nationality and Borders Bill, including criminalization of rescue efforts, contravention of human rights laws, and harsh penalties for illegal entry. The bill's focus on resettlement is critiqued for its lack of accessibility and flexibility, posing challenges to asylum-seekers.
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This short, simple presentation offers a quick overview of some of the key problems with the Nationality and Borders Bill. You could give this presentation to members of your faith community. Perhaps you could add it into a meeting, or a service or prayers. Accompanying each slide, there are notes to help you as you present. The slides are as simple as possible, without any thought to design, so you can format them as you wish adding your own fonts, logos, colours, etc. Ripon City of Sanctuary has paid canstockphoto.com for the right to use the refugee illustrations. Obviously, you ll need to delete this first slide before presenting.
The Nationality and Borders Bill What are some of the key problems?
People must not come here by irregular means . (such as a small boat)
People must stop in the first safe country they come to.
We will push back boats that attempt to make their way here.
Those who rescue asylum-seekers in distress at sea could be criminalised
The bill contravenes international human rights laws 1951 Refugee Convention (UN) Articles 1, 3, 31, 33, 34 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Articles 2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 14
Anyone entering the UK illegally could: have their claim ruled as inadmissible be jailed for up to 4 years have no recourse to public funds be barred from having family members join them
The bill focuses on resettlement. But: No one can apply for resettlement Very few people are offered resettlement You can t choose the country you go to It focuses on nuclear families People don t come direct from peril It s an expensive system The government has scrapped its targets
This creates a 2-tier asylum system The good refugee The bad refugee Languishes somewhere and hopes for resettlement If they make it to the UK, they ll be treated extremely well Tries to have control over their lives. If they make it to the UK, they ll be criminalised and treated very badly.
What do people say about what s been dubbed the anti-refugee bill ?
These proposals are a wrecking ball to the right to claim asylum [here]... the biggest attack on the right to claim asylum that we've ever seen. Refugee Action Imagine that, a jail sentence for not letting someone drown in the sea. Anne McLaughlin, SNP MP This [is] a dreadful bill Refugees and asylum- seekers will be criminalised, stripped of their rights and offshored morally reprehensible. Stuart McDonald, SNP The home secretary's comments on asylum are legally incoherent . Nottingham Law School Priti Patel s proposals aren t just cruel, they undermine the UK s commitments under the Refugee Convention. Liberal Democrats Priti Patel s statement on refugees was one of the vilest statements I ve heard in Parliament. Richard Burgon, MP (Lab) Today is a dark day in Britain's history. The country which was once at the forefront of championing the Refugee Convention has announced it no longer supports the right to be granted sanctuary here from violence. Jesuit Refugee Service
What can we do? Write to our MP and the Home Secretary Find out as much as we can about the NBB Tell people we know Watch the news & keep up the pressure Volunteer to help refugees Vote with our conscience
