A 38-year-old woman with advanced breast cancer was denied potentially life-saving chemotherapy for nearly six weeks after the Home Office deemed her ineligible. Kelemua Mulat, who has metastatic breast cancer in her abdomen and bone cancer in her spine, was refused urgent hospital treatment on 27 April after a Home Office official decided her asylum claim did not meet strict criteria. Doctors at the internationally-renowned Christie hospital in Manchester were extremely concerned by the decision, the Guardian has learned, as consultants believed chemotherapy was “immediately necessary”. The mother-of-one, who fled Ethiopia during political violence in 2010, began chemotherapy on Thursday after the Christie took the rare step of applying to treat her on the grounds that she requires urgent treatment, making her exempt from charges for overseas patients. The treatment started six weeks after she had been due to have her first consultation at the hospital. In an interview … [Read more...] about Home Office prevented asylum seeker’s urgent cancer treatment
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Denmark criticised for ‘celebrating’ plight of asylum seekers in damning report
A 2014 file photo taken inside a Danish asylum centre. Photo: Morten Stricker/Ritzau Scanpix A human rights NGO has released a highly critical report on asylum and immigration practices in Denmark. Denmark’s ‘prison-like’ asylum centres and failure to identify victims of torture, as well as possible detainment of children in unsuitable facilities, were among the concerns raised in the report. The report, entitled ‘Immigration Detention in Denmark: Where Officials Celebrate the Deprivation of Liberty of “Rejected Asylum Seekers”’, was released last week by the Global Detention Project (GDP), a Geneva-based NGO that promotes the human rights of people who have been detained for reasons related to their non-citizen status. During the past three years, Denmark has adopted just under 70 immigration-related amendments aimed at intensifying restrictions, dramatically cut back its asylum recognition rate, and called for detaining as many failed … [Read more...] about Denmark criticised for ‘celebrating’ plight of asylum seekers in damning report
End of Welcoming Culture: Germany Sets Up Centers for Asylum Seekers
One of such consequences was the mass sexual assaults and rapes of women by male migrants and asylum seekers during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the city of Cologne in 2016, something which politicians attempted to conceal for days after the fact. © REUTERS / Fabrizio BenschNew Police Law 'Not Enough to Solve Migration Problem in Germany' - PoliticianMoreover, migrants who have been refused asylum remain in Germany rather than being systematically expelled. For example, a Tunisian national by the name of Anis Amri had been denied asylum but not deported, allowing him to kill 12 people by driving a truck into a crowd in Berlin in December 2016. In March, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, a critic of Merkel’s migration policies, revealed plans to establish so-called anchor centers, where asylum seekers would be placed while their applications were … [Read more...] about End of Welcoming Culture: Germany Sets Up Centers for Asylum Seekers
Trump questions need for immigration judges as he blasts ‘total catastrophe’ of asylum seekers at US border
Donald Trump has questioned the need for immigration judges, suggesting that America’s guarantee of due process was part of a “mess” of a legal system. “Do you think other countries have judges? We give them, like, trials,” Mr Trump said of immigrants who enter the United States. The president blasted the existence of immigration judges while renewing his criticism of a caravan of some 160 Central American asylum seekers who arrived at a border station near San Diego last week, which he called a “catastrophe”. Read more First Central American caravan members allowed to cross into US Immigrant caravan at US border faces tough asylum fight ‘Caravan’ of migrants arrives at US border to apply for asylum While American law allows immigrants without visas to present themselves at ports of entry and claim asylum, Mr Trump and his allies have blasted the caravan as an example of a porous system that encourages illegal immigration. … [Read more...] about Trump questions need for immigration judges as he blasts ‘total catastrophe’ of asylum seekers at US border
Mykkänen rejects calls to detain asylum seekers awaiting deportation
The Finns Party has repeatedly demanded that unsuccessful asylum seekers who have been issued a deportation order be detained on grounds of national security until they have been removed from Finland. Mykkänen on Thursday reminded the opposition party that asylum seekers can be currently detained on grounds of a threat assessment conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP). He pointed out that while immigration is a phenomenon that warrants the attention of authorities, far-right extremism and social exclusion have been identified as the main root causes of terrorism. He revealed a few weeks ago that the operating costs of reception centres stand at roughly 400,000 euros a day, equivalent to 40–50 euros per resident. “If we started detaining [...] everyone who has been denied asylum, the costs would rise considerably,” he highlighted. “The resources should really be directed to create procedures for identifying, detaining and, provided that the … [Read more...] about Mykkänen rejects calls to detain asylum seekers awaiting deportation