Two Tamil asylum seekers have won the right to parasite off the UK taxpayers simply because they threatened to kill themselves if they were sent back to their country of origin.
The latest bizarre twisting of traditional asylum rights — which allow people to seek refuge in the first safe country neighbouring the one they are fleeing if their lives are threatened by others — is the result of a taxpayer-funded court ruling by the asylum swindlers after the Home Office turned down their original application.
The brother and sister said they would commit suicide if forced to return to Sri Lanka, where they both claim that they were raped and tortured in prison. This was repudiated by the Home Office insiders who said that it was safe for them to return to Sri Lanka and it was only their “subjective fear” which made them suicidal.
The decision opens the doors for thousands of other applicants who only now have to threaten suicide to qualify to stay in Britain, no matter how flimsy or outrageous their claims may be.
Appeal Court judges said the pair’s “only perceived means of escape” from their situation would be to take their own lives, which would make deporting them a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. Lord Justice Sedley, sitting with Lady Justice Arden and Lord Justice Moses, said: “Hope can alleviate intolerable stress. Take away hope and stress may become unbearable. Lifting the threat of removal would remove one of the principal sources of depression.”
Thousands of Tamils are mounting a daily protest outside the Commons demanding the UK puts more pressure on Sri Lanka to improve their human rights. New figures show that 60,000 appeals are now coming before immigration tribunals, resulting in a total of 4,474 judicial reviews last year.
Tomorrow is Another Country: What is Wrong with the UK’s Asylum Policy? by Myles Harris.
The key to the failure of our immigration policy is Britain’s adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights. Created in the 1950s to offer refuge to the victims of Soviet persecution, it has been developed to offer asylum to anybody in the world.
In October 2000 the Labour government passed the Human Rights Act, which incorporates the provisions of the Convention into British law. As a result, any refugees who set foot in Britain must be admitted to have their claims heard. Most manage to stay even if their claims are refused.
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