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Mahmood announces NEW refugee sponsorship route into UK
BBC ^ | BBC

Posted on 06/27/2026 7:21:54 AM PDT by RandFan

The Home Office has vowed to introduce new "capped safe and legal" routes for refugees to come to the UK from later this year.

The department said it would allow organisations like universities, community groups and businesses to sponsor refugees who applied to come to the UK, a model based on Canada's asylum system.

The government also said it would press ahead with changes to how human rights and modern slavery laws are applied to asylum applications to root out what it described as "vexatious" claims.

The Conservatives said no extra people should be let into the country until illegal immigration was stopped while Reform UK said it would reverse the scheme if elected to government.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the new system would protect "genuine refugees" while "closing loopholes that have been too often abused".

"Britain has always offered sanctuary to those  fleeing war and persecution," she said.

"But this system only survives if the public trusts that it is fair,  controlled, and not open to abuse."

Mahmood is attempting to shore up support for her immigration bill before Andy Burnham's expected rise to prime minister. It is set to be put before the Commons next week and its more hardline elements could be opposed by some Labour MPs.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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Fleeing "war and persecution". They all say that 🙄
1 posted on 06/27/2026 7:21:54 AM PDT by RandFan
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2 posted on 06/27/2026 7:23:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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You can see why PM Starmer is useless he married a Mahmood ,LOL


3 posted on 06/27/2026 7:23:30 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: RandFan

Come on now. They wouldn’t lie about that. Right? Hello? Bueller? Cyril?


4 posted on 06/27/2026 7:25:13 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: RandFan

> to root out what it described as “vexatious” claims <

Yes, that’s the problem. Vexatious claims. Sounds innocent enough.

As the article noted, the British Home Secretary is Shabana Mahmood. Mahmood is in charge of immigration. And she describes herself as a devout Muslim.

That tells you everything you need to know.


5 posted on 06/27/2026 7:27:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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Doubling down on the stupid.


6 posted on 06/27/2026 7:29:45 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

It is reported that Labour plan to import thousands of refugees into Britain through ‘safe and legal routes’.

I want to be really clear.

A Restore Britain Government will remove every single one.

Anyone who arrives under these new routes will be deported.

We will reverse the damage of this scheme. All of it.

And we will aim to prosecute those officials and politicians who knowingly place dangerous unvetted men in our communities.

It is treasonous behaviour, and will be treated as such.

And that will just be the start. Anyone who arrived illegally or lived illegally and then went on to claim asylum? Deported. Whatever current status they have will not protect them.

Restore Britain will end it all.

11:03 AM · Jun 27, 2026 202.1K Views

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2070825420165943656


7 posted on 06/27/2026 7:29:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: RandFan

Welfare sponsored tourism that comes to visit, without gifts or gratitude, and never leaves.


8 posted on 06/27/2026 7:30:50 AM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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Does gang rape by ‘migrants’ because you’re wearing western clothes and are not a Muslim count as persecution?


9 posted on 06/27/2026 7:40:23 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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it would allow organisations like universities, community groups and businesses to sponsor refugees who applied to come to the UK, a model based on Canada’s asylum system.


subject to much abuse and the money source.

Should be sponsored by individuals but that can be abused also by being a pass through of the institutuional money.

Don’t know how you identify the poetential good ones.

The catch and release thing might be a useful tool. If you have been here and not been in any trouble, not on welfare, they might be the good candidates.


10 posted on 06/27/2026 7:42:08 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: Leaning Right

And they say the ‘great replacement’ is a conspiracy


11 posted on 06/27/2026 7:42:36 AM PDT by RandFan
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Conspiracy theory I mean*

Yet it’s their policy


12 posted on 06/27/2026 7:43:34 AM PDT by RandFan
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Restore Britain has got it right. They and Reform UK had better get on the same page, and form a solid alliance. Otherwise they will just split the opposition vote, and Labour will sail to another victory.

That victory will be it. It will finish off Britain.

The next UK general probably won’t be until 2029, although Labour can call an earlier election if they sense weakness and division in the opposition.


13 posted on 06/27/2026 7:43:35 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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Maybe we can give special citizenship to all the UK citizens here at the world cup and say they are fleeing persecution.


14 posted on 06/27/2026 7:45:43 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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“ “Britain has always offered sanctuary to those fleeing war and persecution,” she said.”

Unless you were a German Jew in the 1940s.

L


15 posted on 06/27/2026 7:47:09 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: RandFan

Put trash in charge of something and all you is trash


16 posted on 06/27/2026 7:48:48 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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"Britain has always offered sanctuary to those  fleeing war and persecution," she said.

Except they're not. Also, it's different when people arrive in ones and twos than when they arrive by the tens of thousands. They're not coming to escape some war; they're coming for the free goodies paid for by UK taxpayers.

17 posted on 06/27/2026 7:55:48 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: Red Badger

‘NO’ in a word we don’t hear enough. Instead we talk endlessly to avoid stopping things that need to simply be stopped.


18 posted on 06/27/2026 8:14:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Leaning Right

Reform’s leadership is akin to our GOP’s.

If the UK’s citizenry wants a country left to argue about, they’d better all united behind Restore.

All of them.


19 posted on 06/27/2026 8:16:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: Leaning Right

Case in point from this side of the pond: me.

I’m a voting-life long registered Dem who stopped voting that way after 1998.

Until President Trump came along, I voted against, never for.

Since 2016 I vote for MAGA.

And if a candidate is MAGA and means it, I don’t give a rat’s patootie about the letter after the name.

You’ll find a lot of us at a Trump rally.

See where I’m going with this, UK.

Vote MEGA.

If Restore has company, great.

If not, at least you’ve got MEGA in Restore.

Vote MEGA.

Period.


20 posted on 06/27/2026 8:21:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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