Saturday 26 November 2022 01:17 AM Not ONE migrant has been sent back to France under post-Brexit rules, new ... trends now
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No asylum seekers have been forcibly returned to France under post-Brexit border rules, official figures showed last night.
Since January last year only 21 'enforced removals' have been carried out against claimants who travelled through a safe country to Britain. None has been removed to France, even though 70,000 have crossed the Channel by small boat over this time.
The 21 returns were made to Germany, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland.
The Home Office introduced rules to allow asylum cases to be declared 'inadmissible' if applicants had a connection with a safe third country, including passing through another state on the way here.
Between those measures coming into force in January 2021 and September this year, more than 20,600 asylum claims were considered.
No asylum seekers have been forcibly returned to France under post-Brexit border rules, official figures showed last night
But only 83 asylum seekers were issued with 'inadmissibility decisions' – meaning another country was 'considered to be responsible for the claim'.
The measures rely on other countries agreeing to accept the asylum seekers back and only 21 cases have led to deportations.
Just under 9,800 cases were eventually put back into the asylum queue to have their cases considered.
