THE TORIES' new Asylum Bill proposals would see a further addition to Britain's existing arsenal of blatantly racist immigration laws.
Meanwhile, an EC interior ministers' discussion document calling for a virtual end to asylum for 'intercontinental' (read: black) refugees has been leaked to the BBC. Its authenticity has subsequently been confirmed.
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The government was last year forced to ditch an earlier version of the Asylum Bill following widespread outcry in the run up to the last general election. Now the fight is on again.
All asylum-seekers will ostensibly get a right of appeal. But some applicants will be subject to a 'fast track' procedure leaving them just eight days to give notice of appeal and to prepare a case. Andrew Universal fingerprinting of asylum-seekers will be introduced, and the current automatic right to housing will be ended.
New immigration rules sneaked in under cover of the bill will take the very right of appeal granted to asylum seekers away from prospective visitors refused a visa and immigrants with grounds for appeal considered 'manifestly unfounded'.
The EC document forms an integral part of the 'Fortress Europé' plan that goes inseparably with Maastricht. Refugees would have to go through 'all legal remedies' in their own country before seeking asylum - an obvious impossibility under many dictatorships.
The exclusion of civil war victims is also under consideration, probably in the light of the current turmoil in Yugoslavia.
The Tories iustify their racism with the claims that Home Secretary Clarke bogus asylum-seekers' who reality 'economic migrants'.
Yet of 15 million refugees internationally in 1990, only 5 per cent came to Europe. As ever, it was the world's poorest countries that took the major share. Asylum applications in Britain have actually halved in the last 12 months.
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