UK to reopen refugee resettlement scheme, prioritizing Palestinians
Shabana Mahmood set to unveil the plan at Labour’s conference, with critics questioning its scale.
What to know
- The UK will reopen a refugee resettlement scheme that has been effectively suspended for two years, though never formally closed.
- About a quarter of places will go to Palestinian refugees and Afghan women, with easier paths to permanent settlement rights.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce the plan at the Labour Party conference, presenting it as fair treatment of the most vulnerable.
- Immigration experts and refugee charities say the scale of the scheme is too small to deter Channel crossings by small boat.
Shabana Mahmood UK Home SecretaryLabour Party Governing party hosting the conference
How it unfolded 2 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump articlesposts
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Charities and experts say scheme is too small to deter Channel crossings — Immigration experts and refugee charities cited in the reporting argue the number of refugees eligible under the scheme is too small to have any deterrent effect on asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats.
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Details emergeScheme to prioritize Palestinians, Afghan women
Follow-up reporting specifies that around a quarter of resettled refugees under the reopened scheme will be Palestinians and Afghan women, and that the program will make it easier for participants to gain permanent settlement rights in the UK.
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2 outlets UK home secretary to restart resettlement program prioritizing Palestinian refugees - report
first by Jerusalem Post, 1d ago · also The Jerusalem Post
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2 outlets first by The Guardian, 1d ago · also Guardian · read ↗
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces that UK will be opening "safe and legal" routes for refugees. These refugees will include "Afghan women and girls fleeing persecution under the Taliban" and "Palestinians who have fled the horrors of Gaza". Live:
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Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees at Labour Conference today, which prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, reports @theguardian.com :
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Yep the normalisation of antisemitism from the left is deeply concerning. Some of the things I've seen recently would have made a nazi blush only a few years ago. Social media is full of it. I'm more left leaning but I've seen right wingers be more willing to call it out than our own side. It's very disappointing when only a few years ago people…
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Guardian reports UK plans to restart resettlement scheme
The Guardian reports that Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce at the Labour Party conference the reopening of a UK refugee resettlement scheme that has been effectively suspended, though never formally closed, for two years.
“genuine refugees…”
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first by ft.com, 1d ago · also BBC, ITVX
4 more headlines
- Mahmood to reopen scheme to resettle refugees in the UK BBC · 15h ago
- UK Resettlement Scheme reopens for new referrals Mastodon · 15h ago
- UK to restart asylum resettlement scheme, says Shabana Mahmood ITVX · 14h ago
- Shabana Mahmood to reopen scheme to resettle refugees in the UK Mastodon · just now
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first by FT, 1d ago
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its almost as if we had some of the worst wars in human history happen on our continent which combined with our traditional values of compassion and human rights, led us to (along with our post war allies) define The 1951 Refugee Convention. To avoid some of the worst-case scenarios happen to fellow humans and ensure there is a place of refuge for…
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There are no incompatible cultures Islam is an incompatible religion in a country that believes women and LGBTs should have equal rights as straight men. If you want to see how a party tries to please both our values and theirs, see how "Your Party" is doing.
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What people are saying 19 voices from 3 sites · best of 28 · verbatim
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Who are they doing this for? No one here wants it, other countries won’t applaud us for it. It’s from a different era of international politics they’re all stuck in.
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Who are these truly sinister people? Cause you follow the power and money and it’s Zionists or Ashkenazi Jewish dynasties
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This Government will reopen the UK Resettlement Route in partnership with the United Nations. We will take vulnerable refugees from camps across the world and give them the chance of a new and better life here in Britain. With the first arrivals beginning this year.
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Problem all the boats are full of men really. This is focussed on women and children. So you’ll just get more people
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UK home secretary to restart resettlement program prioritizing Palestinians | The Jerusalem Post https://www. jpost.com/international/articl e-909908
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Starting in October, charities and nonprofits will be able to apply to become sponsors, allowing communities and universities to host refugees ??? This is insane, no?
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From what I understand it’s a few hundred as a start and a cap in the low thousands. Also a cap every year. I think this is fatigue from the influx of illegal and bad faith ‘asylum seekers’ we’ve seen in recent years but this is a case of people who genuinely need help.
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The woman and children are from Afghanistan. Afghanistan is not a war zone. Palestinians will not be targeting women and children. Considering we just had a Hamas bodyguard caught up in a major terrorist plot, perhaps we don’t need to import more future terrorists to kill us at the moment?
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Why are you defending a policy that aims to bring even more people to a country that is already struggling with huge government debt, a housing crisis and an overworked NHS. You think bringing more people will solve that? You do realise that the more people that come, that is a direct quality of life downgrade for everyone here including yourself?
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I wonder if you care so much about cost that you'd agree that the triple lock needs to go and pensions should be means tested.
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I am indeed shouting for the cancellation of the triple lock, plus a reduction in welfare spend across the board, plus socialisation of some essential services.
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Genuinely do people even think. Women are the most oppressed in afghanistan why would they want to uphold a culture that doesn’t benefit them at all.
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It’s a scheme to prioritise women and girls seeking referee status from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. One of the criticisms mentioned in the article is the numbers involved aren’t enough to affect small boat crossings. It’s an insignificant amount of taxpayers’ money to help the most vulnerable.
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They've already brought it down and are continuing to. Labour deserves the chance to deliver on this promise the same as any elected government.
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Women in Afghanistan won't be allowed to seek asylum in the UK without their chaperone. I suspect some 90% or so will end up being the same array of men, although a suspiciously large number of them will be LGBTQ+.
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We should be happy to pay ever increasing levels of tax to a system that continues to act against the interests of the population.
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Sadly we have no one to vote for that will actually deliver on what they promise. They are all a bunch of lying bastards.
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Sure let’s import even more antisemitism, that sure hasn’t ever gone wrong before… And all this just after we learned that the UK granted asylum and then citizenship to a Hamas leaders bodyguard, it’s satire at this point
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It's baffling to think allowing women and children their own route will cut the boats consisting of 90% men. No, the article says as much, if you read it.