The asylum system ground to a halt in the lead up to the asylum system because ministers had failed to make decisions on how the Illegal Migration Act should work. Processing claims is not an “amnesty” - it’s performing the most basic function of an asylum system www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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The "amnesty" thing is a deliberate framing to link asylum with crime. Beneath contempt.

Totally agree. Calling it an amnesty is really unhelpful. The real question is how claims can be processed fairly and quickly without causing homelessness.