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07-28-2010, 05:37 PM
Up to 45,000 failed asylum seekers given right to work in Britain by Supreme Court
By Jack Doyle (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Jack+Doyle)
Last updated at 10:27 PM on 28th July 2010
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Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers were granted the right to work in the UK yesterday in a landmark court ruling.
It affects around 45,000 whose applications have already been rejected at least once, but who have not been deported.
Home Office officials argued that an EU directive - which gives asylum seekers the right to work after 12 months - should not apply to them because it would encourage applicants to abuse the system by making repeated claims.
But the Supreme Court ruled that failed asylum seekers whose cases have not been dealt with after 12 months must be given access to jobs.
Many of those affected are part of Labour’s backlog of 450,000 asylum claims - which are still being processed.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the MigrationWatch think tank, said: ‘There has been a succession of court decisions which take no account of the real world in which our Home Office has to operate.
‘It is no service to genuine refugees to make the asylum system progressively more open to abuse. Yet again EU directives have unintended and unwelcome consequences for Britain.’
Reacting to the judgment, Tory ministers said they were considering restricting the asylum seekers to industries in which there was already a proven shortage of workers.
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Immigration minister Damian Green said: ‘This judgement will only have a short- term effect. The long delays in the asylum system will be resolved by the summer of next year when all the older asylum cases are concluded.’
The case was brought by two asylum seekers. One, a Somali known as ‘ZO’, came to the UK in 2003. Her claim was rejected in 2004 and all appeals had failed by the end of that year.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/28/article-1298431-006CA5B900000258-683_468x359.jpg UK-bound: Men hoping to claim asylum walk by a security fence in Calais, France. Those who fail in their asylum claims will be able to work thanks to a new ruling
But in 2005 she made a new claim for asylum and in 2007 she asked for the right to work. Delays mean her case is still being considered.
The second, from Burma, known as MM, first applied for asylum in 2004 and was refused by 2005. Two months later he made a new claim which has also never been resolved.
In his ruling, deputy president of the court Lord Kerr wrote: ‘It would be, in my view, anomalous and untoward that an applicant who makes a subsequent application after his first application has been finally disposed of should be denied access to standards that are no more than the minimum to permit him to live with some measure of dignity.’
The ruling was welcomed by refugee charities. Jonathan Ellis, director of policy at the Refugee Council, said: ‘The vast majority of asylum seekers who come to the UK would rather support themselves through work than be forced to be homeless or to rely on Government support.’
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Last updated at 10:27 PM on 28th July 2010
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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/28/article-1298431-06CB4B27000005DC-965_233x438.jpg Short term: Immigration Minister Damian Green said he wants to speed things up so failed asylum seekers who refuse to return home voluntarily can be sent home before they qualify
Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers were granted the right to work in the UK yesterday in a landmark court ruling.
It affects around 45,000 whose applications have already been rejected at least once, but who have not been deported.
Home Office officials argued that an EU directive - which gives asylum seekers the right to work after 12 months - should not apply to them because it would encourage applicants to abuse the system by making repeated claims.
But the Supreme Court ruled that failed asylum seekers whose cases have not been dealt with after 12 months must be given access to jobs.
Many of those affected are part of Labour’s backlog of 450,000 asylum claims - which are still being processed.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the MigrationWatch think tank, said: ‘There has been a succession of court decisions which take no account of the real world in which our Home Office has to operate.
‘It is no service to genuine refugees to make the asylum system progressively more open to abuse. Yet again EU directives have unintended and unwelcome consequences for Britain.’
Reacting to the judgment, Tory ministers said they were considering restricting the asylum seekers to industries in which there was already a proven shortage of workers.
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Immigration minister Damian Green said: ‘This judgement will only have a short- term effect. The long delays in the asylum system will be resolved by the summer of next year when all the older asylum cases are concluded.’
The case was brought by two asylum seekers. One, a Somali known as ‘ZO’, came to the UK in 2003. Her claim was rejected in 2004 and all appeals had failed by the end of that year.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/28/article-1298431-006CA5B900000258-683_468x359.jpg UK-bound: Men hoping to claim asylum walk by a security fence in Calais, France. Those who fail in their asylum claims will be able to work thanks to a new ruling
But in 2005 she made a new claim for asylum and in 2007 she asked for the right to work. Delays mean her case is still being considered.
The second, from Burma, known as MM, first applied for asylum in 2004 and was refused by 2005. Two months later he made a new claim which has also never been resolved.
In his ruling, deputy president of the court Lord Kerr wrote: ‘It would be, in my view, anomalous and untoward that an applicant who makes a subsequent application after his first application has been finally disposed of should be denied access to standards that are no more than the minimum to permit him to live with some measure of dignity.’
The ruling was welcomed by refugee charities. Jonathan Ellis, director of policy at the Refugee Council, said: ‘The vast majority of asylum seekers who come to the UK would rather support themselves through work than be forced to be homeless or to rely on Government support.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298431/Up-45-000-failed-asylum-seekers-given-right-work-Britain.html#ixzz0v10yYvPA
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