The Liberal Democrats have proposed the temporary, “emergency” processing centres to bring down the backlog in asylum claims and close hotels within six months.
Nightingale courts and hospitals were temporary facilities used during the pandemic to deal with the sheer number of cases and in terms of the judiciary, attempt to clear the backlog when existing courts faced restrictions.
Lib Dems have suggested many of the new arrivals could be picking crops or staffing hotels, bars and restaurants.
Caption: Anti-asylum protest outside the Brook Hotel in Norwich (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)The current number pending asylum claims stands at 70,500 drown from 85,000 in June 2024.
The number of asylum seekers staying in hotels has crept up slightly – from 29,000 to 32,000 – since Labour’s general election victory.
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey wants ‘humanity’ in the asylum system (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
How would ‘Nightingale’ centres work?
The Lib Dems’ plan would see the set-up of emergency centres – staffed by new case workers – to speed up the processing of asylum claims.
These migrants would either get refugee status to live in the UK, or face deportation. Davey claims his plan would close hotels within six months and “restore some humanity” to the system.
But the Lib Dems have not estimated how much the plan would cost.
There are also question marks over how quickly people could be trained to work on asylum claims. New case workers could be trained “within weeks”, said Smart.
Refugee support charities told The i Paper that there was a danger in Nightingale site staff “rushing” asylum claims, leading to more flawed decisions.
“There is a danger of making ever more mistakes by trying to rush decisions. More flawed decisions would mean more appeals, clogging up the court system.”
Otherwise, more migrants will get stuck in the time-consuming appeals system.
Caption: Fruit pickers at a farm in Egerton (Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)
What’s the plan to let asylum seekers work?
The Lib Dems also want to end the ban which prevents asylum seekers from working while they await their claim.
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Letting asylum seekers work was a “good idea”, said Care4Calais. It would allow some new arrivals earn enough to pay for own accommodation and help them “integrate properly into society”, said the charity.
Davey said Reform UK and Nigel Farage were “not offering real solutions” to the small boats crisis.
The Lib Dem leader also branded Elon Musk a “criminal”. The party has called for MPs to question the tech mogul over his “fight back” or “die” comments at an anti-asylum rally led by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
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