Section: Immigration and asylum
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Right to rent: no plans to scrap discriminatory housing scheme, Lords told
Labour peer Ruth Lister had proposed axing the policy as part of the renters’ rights bill — but the government refused
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ESOL teachers sound alarm over Starmer’s language proposals for migrants
English courses for speakers of other languages have suffered 20 years of cuts as ‘a casualty of the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment’
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Right to rent: peers to discuss scrapping anti-immigrant housing policy
Tenants and landlords want the controversial duty binned. An amendment to the renters’ rights bill by Labour peer Ruth Lister could be the first step
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UK has deported eight offenders to Afghanistan since Taliban takeover
Data obtained exclusively from the Home Office shows at least one deportee had been serving a sentence of less than six months
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Poland passed an ‘illegal’ anti-asylum law and the EU isn’t doing anything
People crossing the Belarusian border — including Afghan, Iraqi and Somali migrants — are no longer able to claim asylum, breaching international law
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Iranian asylum seeker lay dead for up to four months while wearing ankle tag
Mehrab Omrani’s case sparks calls from cross-party MPs for government to review plan to expand use of ‘dispersal accommodation’ run by Clearsprings
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Tories spent £1.9m on ‘dehumanising’ immigration tagging that didn’t work
Labour’s own evaluation of the programme, published in January, found that GPS tagging had not made people less likely to go awol
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Warnings of ‘silencing campaign’ as US ‘Muslim ban 2.0’ targets pro-Palestine groups
Arab and Muslim Americans are ‘anxious and frightened’ as new president orders universities to monitor overseas students and cancel visas
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Children go missing from ‘safe’ Kent asylum centres 160 times in three years
Children’s commissioner Rachel de Souza vows to raise findings with Kent county council, with almost all missing kids coming from Muslim-majority countries
