Priti Patel urged to justify claim that most boat migrants are not real refugees

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : In oral evidence to the home affairs select committee in September 2020, Abi Tierney, the director general of UK Visas and Immigration, stated that of 5,000 people who had crossed in 2020 until the date of the committee meeting, 98% had claimed asylum.
50% : If yes, what happened to giving anxious scrutiny to every individual claim for asylum?"
42% : At the Lords home affairs and justice committee last week, Patel was questioned about her new policy of deeming any person who arrives in the UK to claim asylum after passing through a "safe" country as "inadmissible" -
37% : Published Home Office data shows that many of those arriving on small boats whose claims were deemed inadmissible originate from conflict zones such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan.

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