Refugee Council figures reveal potential human and economic cost of government’s illegal migration bill
Nearly 200,000 people, including more than 40,000 children, could be locked up or forced into destitution if the government’s controversial illegal migration bill becomes law, according to new analysis by the Refugee Council.said it hopes to deport from the UK, to project how many people are likely to either be forcibly removed or left in limbo in the first three years of the new legislation if it becomes law, at a cost to the taxpayer of around £9bn.
When calculating the figures, Refugee Council worked on the basis that the government deports the 30,000 asylum seekers they say they hope to remove to Rwanda. So far no removals have taken placeEven if Home Office does remove 30,000 people to Rwanda, the Refugee Council estimates that between 161,147 and 192,670 people could be left in limbo. There are currently only 3,000 spaces in immigration detention.
Many of those who will be detained and deported under the new legislation are from the world’s most troubled countries, including Eritrea, Sudan, Syria and Iran, where there is no visa resettlement option available. There are resettlement schemes for Afghans escaping from the Taliban but they are limited and many Afghans are fleeing their country and travelling to the UK in small boats.
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