The ruling delivered in the High Court on Monday would disapply large sections of the Act in Northern Ireland. Mr Robinson insisted that his party had repeatedly warned the Government that its immigrations laws were incompatible with post-Brexit arrangements contained in the Northern Ireland Protocol/Windsor Framework. Delivering his court judgment, Mr Justice Humphreys ruled that a several sections of the Illegal Migration Act would lead to a diminution of the rights of asylum seekers residing in Northern Ireland. “I think the High Court has been very clear today,” she said, noting she was speaking in a personal capacity. “Now we not only have a trade partitioning Irish Sea border, but now an immigration border too, leaving NI wide open as a magnet for asylum seekers.

Source: The Herald May 13, 2024 14:31 UTC