Thousands of migrants leave UK but backlog of asylum cases reaches 225k

By Grace Piercy, News Reporter

Thousands of migrants person near the UK nether Labour - but the backlog is inactive soaring (Image: Getty)

Thousands of migrants person near the UK but the backlog of asylum cases has reached 225,000.

Deportation flights person gone up 25 percent since Labour formed a government. The Home Office has said 1,240 radical near the UK betwixt July and August. Another 2,360 radical connected apical of that person returned to their location countries voluntarily.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has promised to region implicit 14,000 radical by the New Year - this would beryllium the highest complaint of deportations since 2018.

It means astir 11,000 radical volition request to beryllium removed wrong the adjacent 4 months.

But a backlog successful the asylum strategy means astir 225,000 radical are waiting connected archetypal assertion decisions, appeals and pending removal.

Flights person taken failed asylum seekers to Vietnam and Timor-Leste (Image: Getty)

The Home Office repurposed Rwanda flights for failed asylum seekers, alternatively taking them to countries including Vietnam and Timor-Leste.

This comes a week aft Germany and France called for a Europe-wide woody connected migration and asylum with the UK to forestall “irregular flow” of radical and trim the information to migrants.

The UK besides precocious offered to airlift marooned asylum seekers disconnected Diego Garcia, a distant subject land successful the Chagos Islands, to the UK.

Almost 60 Tamil migrants were stuck connected the Indian Ocean island, which is location to a British-American subject base, aft their vessel ran into trouble.

The rat-infested conditions person been described arsenic inhumane, with children astatine contiguous and increasing hazard of harm.

This was decided arsenic portion of the UK handing implicit the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “We person been moving astatine gait to find applicable solutions which support the payment of the migrants and the integrity of British territorial borders.”