With delays in the system rife, asylum seekers spend many months in forced idleness until their cases are decided. Here are three people's stories.
Forced poverty and fear of deportation make asylum seekers easy targets.
Suella Braverman likes to portray herself as tough on crime. But for all her rhetoric, it is clear there is a particular crime that the Home Secretary has no interest in tackling. Even worse: her Illegal Migration Act is a veritable traffickers' charter.
There are tens of thousands of people who, like me, have fled wars, oppression and violence, but who are now in limbo.
A hostile bureaucracy stops doctors and other key workers from contributing to the UK.
Amid a labour shortage, the government puts ideology before the economy.
“We can use this to get the discussion of mass deportations into general conversation and wake up some sheeple," gushed one activist on a far-right Telegram channel. Others, meanwhile, called on Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak to also deport themselves.
The Titan submersible was lost because a company allegedly cut corners hoping disaster would not strike. The Adriana sank off the Greek coast because European policies were crafted to ensure that it would.
How ‘Windrush Futurism’ is empowering the descendants of Caribbean migrants to shape new identities.
Women seeking asylum in the UK to escape homophobic communities already face unique obstacles. Now, they might be sent to countries that are patently unsafe.