Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Impact of the UK's Illegal Migration Act 2023 on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion
Mr. Patrick Corrigan:
That is exactly right. The consequences now are extraordinarily severe and include being removed to a third country or being removed to a country from which someone had fled. There are now risks to people's rights to safety and life. One of the rights that is removed is the right to adequately challenge the decisions are made about people, their detention and removal. That legal challenge to which one is entitled under the European Convention and under EU law has been swept aside by the UK Illegal Migration Act. Not only can people find themselves caught up in the Kafkaesque situation of being detained and facing deportation, but their opportunity to challenge has also effectively been removed or at least massively diminished. People enter the netherworld of UK immigration policy and there is very little way out of it. Those are the consequences and dangers for visa nationals, etc., who find themselves caught up in clause 2 and the other clauses of this Act.
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