{"id":1017351,"date":"2023-03-07T16:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/mar\/07\/what-does-the-uk-governments-migration-bill-propose"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:44:42","slug":"what-does-the-uk-governments-bill-on-illegal-migration-propose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/07\/what-does-the-uk-governments-bill-on-illegal-migration-propose\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the UK government\u2019s bill on illegal migration propose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers say the bill will stop people crossing the Channel in small boats but critics say the plans are unworkable<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2023\/mar\/07\/small-boat-crossings-immigration-rishi-sunak-suella-braverman-mps-details-uk-politics-latest\">UK politics live \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2022, 45,755 men, women and children crossed the Channel in small boats to reach the UK, most of whom then claimed asylum. Nearly 3,000 people have already made the crossing this year, with official estimates expecting more than 80,000 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Rishi Sunak has promised to end the small boats once and for all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/mar\/05\/sunak-to-launch-bill-to-bar-asylum-claims-from-people-arriving-on-small-boats\">by introducing the illegal migration bill<\/a>. Critics including former Tory ministers have claimed it is doomed to be halted by challenges in the EU courts and will be used as an issue to attack Labour in a general election campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/mar\/07\/what-does-the-uk-governments-migration-bill-propose\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers say the bill will stop people crossing the Channel in small boats but critics say the plans are unworkableUK politics live \u2013 latest news updatesIn 2022, 45,755 men, women and children crossed the Channel in small boats to reach the UK, most o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3055,640,14,238,44425,1314,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018518,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017351\/revisions\/1018518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}