Immigration news

It seems again that migrants are being treated unfairly.

Channel crossings make a great deal of news.  However, according to lawyers and campaigners this represents a tiny proportion of people arriving into the UK.  Boris Johnson said the following late last year:

Perhaps inevitably there are worse delays than normal in dealing with US visa petitions and applications due to the coronavirus pandemic.  USCIS has a cash crisis and so has less resources to try and deal with a backlog of visa applications. 

The 14 day quarantine period has been heavily criticised by many.  Airlines who have already suffered enormously due to coronavirus COVID-19 continue to suffer.  Many people coming into the UK will be unable to work for fourteen days.

The requirements that US visa applicants provide their social media account names is having a chilling affect on freedom of speech.  People are now self-censoring as they are scared that something that they might say on social media will lead to refusal of an US visa.  Last year Trump even had a bizarre "Social Media Summit"

Many of these people in immigration detention have suffered horribly before they were put into detention.  Some are victims of human trafficking and torture. They have suffered enough.  People in immigration detention are in effect facing prison like conditions in some cases for very long periods of time.  UK visas at t