UK could send failed asylum seekers to ‘return hubs’ overseas, Starmer says
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-14/starmer-to-announce-new-crackdown-on-people-smugglers-as-he-visits-albania
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UK could send failed asylum seekers to ‘return hubs’ overseas, Starmer says
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-14/starmer-to-announce-new-crackdown-on-people-smugglers-as-he-visits-albania
Posted by Weary-Candy8252
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there needs ot be a system for removing failed asylum seekers, as it is most just end up staying and working illegally.
This would be less of a deterrent than sending them to third countries on arrival while their claim is processed.
How is this any better than a less effective version of the Rwanda deal?
How about we return them to Franc…. Oh wait we had one of those agreements but we threw it all away in the name of perceived sovereignty
Why?
JUST STOP THE F3CKING BOATS, and Sud the International law.
Dramatic, but close to impossible not to conjure up [Children Of Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=161h1o168xU) imagery with the banal language of a “*return hub*”
Literally the only impressive thing about this guy is his uncanny ability to piss off the left & the right at the same time, every time he opens his mouth to let out another wet fart of a Tory-lite policy.
Goddamnit, my country back home is trying to criminalize my existence article 8 might’ve been my strongest case and now I’m having more doubts even though they’re trying to criminal my existence that should help me I hope they take pity on me because I’m ready to work immediately and I’m getting no government support and I entered legally
how about just send all enter illegally back? and toughen up the border securty?
How about the West Falkland Island?
People would absolutely not come here if that was their destination. Plus the Argentinians wouldn’t want it back!
So like Rwanda? The policy that Labour trashed and discredited repeatedly?
Sooo Rwanda deal? That you cancelled. Which UK build infrastructure is now being used by Germany? Cool.
Return hubs can also collect your eBay/Amazon packages at the same time
How about Rwanda?
Oh wait. You turned it off because Tories bad?
Depends is this before or after an appeal? Since if appeal fails theres already a deportation process
Could is the magic word here. Kier starmer could actually tell the truth one day. I trust pinocchio more.
This is not going to stop the boats or “smash the gangs”. The way to stop this problem immediately is to remove them from the country as soon as they arrive illegally. Or stop them from reaching the UK in the first place. Anything else is just pointless.
Starmers a racist prick
We knew that when he said it was fine for the zionist occupation of Palestine to dehydrate and starve Palestinians to death
Under his boss McSweeneys guidance, he becomes more and more of a far right authoritarian by the day
I honestly believe he’s deliberately creating the circumstances for the far right to win the next GE. No one, not even Starmer, could actually be this fvcking stupid.
Reform fascist mugs will never vote Labour. They think Starmers ‘new new Labour’ is ‘communist’. Attacks on disabled people, trans people and refugees have alienated labours core vote
How would sending failed asylum seekers to overseas return hubs help the failed asylum seekers?
Much of the rhetoric on this issue seems to have forgotten the human in the story.
No one in government seems at all concerned with this asylum costs that us taxpayers are paying for.
Sir Starmer, it could but it won’t because our justice system won’t let it happen: my advice, don’t make promises you can’t deliver. What you should say is, that once an undocumented migrant arrives, they’re free to stay here as long as they like and will be provided with accommodation – sorry that’s it’s not much but we can’t really afford better ATM – food and clothing and a bit of pocket money for, oh I don’t know, ‘till your on your feet. If you said that, it’d be true and we’d all understand.
The number of people in these comments saying “muh Rwanda” (regardless of whether they’re being deliberately disingenuous or genuinely don’t understand that this is a completely different solution) really shows how far the level of discourse in this country has fallen.
I’ll laugh out loud if one of those hubs is in Rwanda…
Patrick Christys did a segment yesterday interviewing “asylum seekers” in France, in the camps where they are waiting to get a boat to the UK.
They were all saying a similar thing, they want to come to the UK because they get a house, money etc. They are clearly telling us why they are coming, it’s not to escape any dangers in France, but because they get better free stuff in the UK… yet some people are still trying to defend them coming.
The whole situation and how it’s being allowed to continue is straight up madness.
Reformism collapsing before our very eyes, the idea that being a bigger asshole would convince people to take our failed asylum seekers is laughable
Talking bollocks as usual. This government have got zero interest in curbing illegal entry in the country
I say we ask anyone seeking asylum to provide evidence medical records (attempt murder or torture) police records (proof you contacted the authorities) membership (proof of your affiliations) criminal record (proof your not a threat to the public) also a personality and psychological test (proof you can live in British society) if you past both tests you stay if you fail one test you get deported the next day.
Asylum is meant for people whose lives are under immediate threat it’s not meant for people who watched a Tik Tok video in Syria or Turkey and said “hey the UK is easy let me go there and seek asylum” 😔
Can I ask a more constructive question. With major developments like the civil war in Syria finishing and a stable government in Afghanistan shouldn’t the number of people sheltering under asylum arrangements in the UK now be declining anyway? In effect those emergencies are now over so people can return.