UK could send failed asylum seekers to ‘return hubs’ overseas, Starmer says
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-14/starmer-to-announce-new-crackdown-on-people-smugglers-as-he-visits-albania
by Weary-Candy8252
UK could send failed asylum seekers to ‘return hubs’ overseas, Starmer says
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-14/starmer-to-announce-new-crackdown-on-people-smugglers-as-he-visits-albania
by Weary-Candy8252
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there needs ot be a system for removing failed asylum seekers, as it is most just end up staying and working illegally.
This would be less of a deterrent than sending them to third countries on arrival while their claim is processed.
How is this any better than a less effective version of the Rwanda deal?
How about we return them to Franc…. Oh wait we had one of those agreements but we threw it all away in the name of perceived sovereignty
Dramatic, but close to impossible not to conjure up [Children Of Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=161h1o168xU) imagery with the banal language of a “*return hub*”
how about just send all enter illegally back? and toughen up the border securty?
How about the West Falkland Island?
People would absolutely not come here if that was their destination. Plus the Argentinians wouldn’t want it back!
Return hubs can also collect your eBay/Amazon packages at the same time
Depends is this before or after an appeal? Since if appeal fails theres already a deportation process
Could is the magic word here. Kier starmer could actually tell the truth one day. I trust pinocchio more.
This is not going to stop the boats or “smash the gangs”. The way to stop this problem immediately is to remove them from the country as soon as they arrive illegally. Or stop them from reaching the UK in the first place. Anything else is just pointless.
No one in government seems at all concerned with this asylum costs that us taxpayers are paying for.
Sir Starmer, it could but it won’t because our justice system won’t let it happen: my advice, don’t make promises you can’t deliver. What you should say is, that once an undocumented migrant arrives, they’re free to stay here as long as they like and will be provided with accommodation – sorry that’s it’s not much but we can’t really afford better ATM – food and clothing and a bit of pocket money for, oh I don’t know, ‘till your on your feet. If you said that, it’d be true and we’d all understand.
The number of people in these comments saying “muh Rwanda” (regardless of whether they’re being deliberately disingenuous or genuinely don’t understand that this is a completely different solution) really shows how far the level of discourse in this country has fallen.
I’ll laugh out loud if one of those hubs is in Rwanda…
Patrick Christys did a segment yesterday interviewing “asylum seekers” in France, in the camps where they are waiting to get a boat to the UK.
They were all saying a similar thing, they want to come to the UK because they get a house, money etc. They are clearly telling us why they are coming, it’s not to escape any dangers in France, but because they get better free stuff in the UK… yet some people are still trying to defend them coming.
The whole situation and how it’s being allowed to continue is straight up madness.
Reformism collapsing before our very eyes, the idea that being a bigger asshole would convince people to take our failed asylum seekers is laughable
Talking bollocks as usual. This government have got zero interest in curbing illegal entry in the country
I say we ask anyone seeking asylum to provide evidence medical records (attempt murder or torture) police records (proof you contacted the authorities) membership (proof of your affiliations) criminal record (proof your not a threat to the public) also a personality and psychological test (proof you can live in British society) if you past both tests you stay if you fail one test you get deported the next day.
Asylum is meant for people whose lives are under immediate threat it’s not meant for people who watched a Tik Tok video in Syria or Turkey and said “hey the UK is easy let me go there and seek asylum” 😔
Can I ask a more constructive question. With major developments like the civil war in Syria finishing and a stable government in Afghanistan shouldn’t the number of people sheltering under asylum arrangements in the UK now be declining anyway? In effect those emergencies are now over so people can return.
Oh the irony this labour goverment said it was a gimmick when the tories tried this
You need to close the doors before you shut the counter else the queue will just keep on growing
The problem the UK has is nothing to do with asylum. The real question that needs to be asked and addressed, is why people are passing through countless safe countries only to seek asylum in the UK?
Because it’s a handout state.
This has everything to do with wanting an easy life and nothing to do with fleeing danger.
But I suppose who can really blame them, if they have nothing and there’s a place that will give them everything for free?
If this wasn’t the case then there would be no reason to risk everything to end up in the UK.
Just conscript them as labourers to build houses and infrastructure. They will work in exchange for room and board, but no more. They are welcome to leave the UK at any time (so it isn’t slavery) but if they choose to stay they will work from dawn to dusk, 365 days a year and will be confined to their lodgings at all other times.
yes this is sensible idea.
what we want is:
1. processing centres abroad, so that people dont have to undertake hazardous journeys to apply for asylum.
2. speedy decisions on applications.
3. successful asylum claimants to be brought to the uk and assisted into work and integration.
4. Failed asylum seekers to be returned, or to be assisted to apply in another jurisdiction.
what we dont want:
To engage in performative cruelty, abrogating our responsibility to deal with asylum claims by paying a dodgy foreign government like Rwanda, hundreds of millions of £, and ship even successful applicants to such a country (which they can then leave anyway).
Return Hubs: the word you use for middle-age men returning from Thailand.
I miss “sorry I haven’t got a clue”.
The key point here is “failed” applicants.
I think this, most people will agree on.
This is where the focus needs to be. Not on legal immigrants paying tax and working on legal grounds
You mean a place where we could concentrate all those people … what like in some kind of a camp. Without access to due process, cool, maybe we could extend that list to undesirables … of our choosing too.
Or we could just rejoin the EU and have the right to send them back to where they first arrived as well as having access to the data on the criminals sneaking in. But let’s spend billions on another scheme.
We will try anything other than admit the Tories shot us all in the foot and some of the grifters made a lot of money from that misery.
So basically the Rwanda “plan” but called something else?
“I’m not prepared to continue with gimmicks that don’t act as a deterrent.”
Love the vague terminology, just enough to bait the raging right wing. Whilst only claiming it as a ‘could’ rather than a ‘will’ to provoke debate/rage amongst the left, touche. Scum.
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