Migrant rapists and paedos will be BANNED from claiming asylum under fresh immigration crackdown
MIGRANT sex fiends will finally be stripped of refugee rights — as Channel crossings pass 10,000 for the year.
New laws will treat foreign rapists and paedos like terrorists and war criminals so the Home Office can deport them more easily.
Currently, any overseas convict sentenced to more than 12 months in jail is automatically subject to a removal order.
But many take advantage of protections under the UN Refugee Convention to avoid deportation by claiming asylum.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s amendment to her Borders Bill will categorise anyone on the sex register as a “particularly serious criminal”.
It will create a presumption they should be denied refugee rights but they could still fight deportations using European human rights laws.
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Ministers believe this would have seen Clapham attacker Abdul Ezedi removed following his sexual assault in 2017 — before he successfully claimed asylum and threw alkali over a mother and her two children last year.
Ms Cooper said: “Sex offenders who pose a risk to the community should not be allowed to benefit from refugee protections in the UK.”
She is also setting a 20-week target for asylum decisions, down from the 50-week backlog as tax-payers fork out billions in migrant hotel costs.
The number of small boat arrivals was due to go into five figures for the year when yesterday’s crossings are confirmed.
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Brexiteer Nigel Farage warned the influx was “coming to a town near you” amid reports ministers are offering to pay landlords to house them.
Sex toys Iranian’s stay win
By Tom Seaward
AN Iranian asylum seeker who said he cannot be deported as he is a “sex toy smuggler” has won a fight to stay in Britain.
The man, who has not been named, said authorities in Iran viewed him “adversely”.
Under Islamic law, sex toys are illegal.
The “elaborate” argument was dismissed by the British asylum court.
But a judge on appeal found the man had attended nine demonstrations outside the Iranian Embassy in London.
He decided the Iranian would face “real risk of persecution” and the man won his appeal on “refugee convention” grounds.
