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The latest News Review looks at the Liberal Democrat call for a selective amnesty for undocumented immigrants, amongst other immigration policies. It also highlights a new development over deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo, some recent asylum statistics, and criticisms of the fast-track asylum process.

14 August - 10 September

Liberal Democrats call for selective amnesty

Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson Nick Clegg has called for an amnesty for immigrants who have been living in the UK illegally for years and show potential to be good citizens. The package of proposals on immigration also includes giving a new border control force police-style powers, and more money for local authorities to integrate immigrant communities. The policies will be debated at Liberal Democrat conference.

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/reviews/newsreview.html

In response to a High Court ruling today that removing asylum seekers to third countries without first considering their claims is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, Donna Covey, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council said:

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/press/2007/july/20070702_b.htm

In case you have been on holiday for the past few days and this blog is the first thing you read when you come back (a limited demographic, I know), we have a new Prime Minister!  Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair on Wednesday and has spent the last few days (terrorist threats aside) appointing his new ministers.  Now everyone seems to be referring to this as a 'reshuffle', but surely you can't reshuffle until you have first shuffled?  And to have shuffled, first you must have appointed.  So I reckon this is Gordon appointing his ministers, not reshuffling them, but no-one else seems to agree with me so I'll just plough on and let you know the details instead of wittering on about the semantics.

http://refugeecouncil.typepad.com/poliblog/

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