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Suella Braverman: Absurd UN Asylum Rules Have Created 780m Refugees Calls For Reform That Has Led to Huge Incentives For Illegal Migration
UN Rebukes Suella Braverman Over Her Attack on Refugee Convention.
UNHCR Defends 1951 Convention After UK Home Secretarys’ Speech on Uncontrolled and Illegal Migration
BBC 27 SEP 2023
Suella Braverman on a visit to the United States, says the current refugee system is 'absurd and unsustainable' British culture ‘will disappear’ without migration controls, says Braverman
The UN’s refugee agency has rebuked Suella Braverman after she claimed that world leaders had failed to make wholesale reform of human rights laws because of fears of being branded “racist or illiberal”.
The UNHCR issued a highly unusual statement on Tuesday defending the 1951 refugee convention and highlighting the UK’s record asylum claim backlog.
The Home Secretary will warn that as many as 780 million people will be eligible to claim asylum without radical reform of global refugee rules.
On a visit to the United States on Tuesday, Suella Braverman will warn that the threshold for asylum claims under the United Nations Refugee Convention has been lowered in the courts.
She will say “simply being gay, a woman or fearful of discrimination” is now effectively enough to qualify for protection, with refugee rights extended to up to 780 million people.
Mrs Braverman will suggest that while the convention was an “incredible achievement” when signed after the Second World War, it may now need reform because it has created “huge incentives for illegal migration”. She added that the current situation was “absurd and unsustainable”.
Her comments, to be delivered to the American Enterprise Institute, a Right of centre think tank in Washington, come as the Government battles the small boats crisis and US authorities struggle with more than two million migrants crossing their southern border
Her remarks will put her on a collision course with the UN High Commission for Refugees, which supported the legal challenge against government plans to deport Channel migrants to Rwanda. The flights remain grounded until the Supreme Court determines this autumn if they are legal.
Mrs Braverman has previously signalled her desire to quit the European Convention on Human Rights for the way “politicised” and “interventionist” judges have trampled on “the territory of national sovereignty”. However, until now, she has not publicly and directly taken aim at the Refugee Convention.
She is expected to say: “Seeking asylum and seeking better economic prospects are not the same thing.
“Seeking refuge in the first safe country you reach or shopping around for your preferred destination are not the same thing.
“The extent to which the global asylum framework enables the merging of these categories creates huge incentives for illegal migration. This legal framework is rooted in the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.”
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