The Home Office is contemplating fitting asylum seekers arriving within the UK by way of unauthorised means with electronic tags, it has been reported.
The Occasions stated officers are mulling it as a method to stop migrants who can’t be housed in restricted detention websites from absconding.
The Unlawful Migration Act locations a authorized obligation on the Authorities to detain and take away these arriving within the UK illegally, both to Rwanda or one other “secure” third nation.
Nevertheless, as areas in Home Office lodging are briefly provide, officers have been tasked with a “deep dive” into alternate options, in accordance with the newspaper.
Whereas the popular answer is to extend the variety of detention locations, electronic tagging has been mooted, as has chopping off monetary allowances to somebody who fails to report frequently to the Home Office, the Occasions cited a supply from the division as saying.
The supply reportedly instructed the paper: “Tagging has all the time been one thing that the Home Office has been eager on and is the popular choice to withdrawing monetary help, which might be legally troublesome as migrants can be prone to being left destitute.”
Requested whether or not tagging is into account, a supply near Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated: “We already do it.”
Home Office knowledge this week confirmed Channel crossings topped 19,000 for the yr to date, regardless of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge that he’ll “cease the boats”.
The asylum backlog has soared to a document excessive, with greater than 175,000 individuals ready for an preliminary resolution on an asylum software on the finish of June, with the invoice for the taxpayer virtually doubling in a yr to almost £4 billion.
