The government will consult on proposals to send asylum seekers to offshore processing centresMigrants who enter the UK illegally will be stripped of benefits, denied the full right to remain and be regularly reassessed for removal under an overhaul of the asylum system. Priti Patel, the home secretary, will unveil a two-tier system today that will ensure asylum seekers who come to the UK illegally will have their status automatically downgraded on arrival. SponsoredIn contrast, those who come via new safe and legal routes will be allowed to stay permanently and be given state subsidies to help integrate. The plans will be announced in a 60-page “new plan for immigration” document billed as the “biggest overhaul of the UK’s asylum system in decades”. It is designed to eradicate the “pull factors” that last year saw 8,420 people

Source: The Times March 24, 2021 00:00 UTC