Asylum Update

As the two major parties compete to see who can talk toughest (note Des Browne's response), back to what actually happens on the ground.

"OFFICIALS from the Immigration Service who questioned the Government’s target for removing failed asylum-seekers were branded “not one of us” and troublemakers, a senior civil servant has admitted.
The director in charge of detention at the Immigration Service said that he considered the Government’s target to remove 30,000 asylum-seekers as “fantasy”. But he added that reasoned debate within the Immigration and Nationality Directorate was “forbidden”. "