Concession designed to save Suella Braverman’s flagship illegal migration policy
More than 10,000 Channel migrants will be spared automatic deportation to Rwanda under concessions designed to save Suella Braverman’s flagship illegal migration legislation.
The Home Secretary has abandoned plans to apply the new powers of automatic detention and deportation to any migrant who arrived after March 7, the date when her Illegal Migration Bill was presented to Parliament.
Instead, the powers will only come into force once the Bill has passed through all its Parliamentary stages and been granted Royal Assent, which ministers hope will be later this summer.
Ministers wanted the legislation to be retrospective as a deterrent to small boat crossings over the spring and summer, and to prevent a surge in migrants seeking to beat the Bill’s later implementation deadline.