11, October 2019
UK: Unregistered EU citizens may be deported after Brexit 0
The UK Government has reneged on a promise to EU citizens, as a minister threatens EU citizens with deportation if they do not apply for settled status after Brexit.
The UK Security Minister, Brandon Lewis, announced that EU citizens who do not apply for settled status by the end of 2020 may be removed from the UK.
“If EU citizens have not registered by then without an adequate justification, the immigration rules will apply,” Lewis said.
Critics said the minister’s comments suggested that the government was planning to renege on a promise to EU citizens.
If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, EU citizens need to apply to the settlement scheme if they wish to continue living in the UK after 30 June 2021.
About one million of the estimated three million EU citizens in the UK have yet to apply for settled status, Home Office figures showed.
The3million, a group representing EU citizens living in Britain, said many EU citizens in the UK were unaware of the requirement or were simply refusing to register for settled status, as a protest against Brexit.
There is concern that there could be tens of thousands of EU nationals in the UK who will fail to apply in time, and that older and more vulnerable EU residents may not be aware of the need to secure their rights.
Moreover, the Home Office has been accused of misleading the public over how successful its EU Settlement Scheme has been.
The Government stated that only two applications to stay in the UK after Brexit have been refused and insists that the system is working well. However, new analysis suggests more than 7,600 applicants have not been granted permanent permission to live and work in the country – settled status – or temporary leave to remain – pre-settled status.
Britons now understand that the economic and political freedoms they had hoped for during the 2016 Brexit vote have morphed into a future of uncertainty under Mr. Johnson’s push for a no-deal.
Source: Presstv
12, October 2019
US: Acting Homeland Security Secretary McAleenan resigns 0
US acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is resigning and a new acting chief of the agency would be named next week, President Donald Trump says.
McAleenan, the fourth person to serve in the post since the Trump presidency began, submitted his resignation to the White House on Friday, the president announced on Twitter.
Trump said McAleenan, 48, who has served since April, “wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector.”
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked well together with Border Crossings being way down. Kevin now, after many years in Government, wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector..
McAleenan also on Twitter addressed his departure in a statement, saying “we have made tremendous progress mitigating the border security.”
Acting Sec. Kevin McAleenan✔@DHSMcAleenan
I want to thank the President for the opportunity to serve alongside the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security. With his support, over the last 6 months, we have made tremendous progress mitigating the border security and humanitarian crisis we faced this year…
This comes a few days after McAleenan was forced to abandon a debate stage in the US capital after protesters drowned him out, condemning the crackdown on migrants and asylum seekers.
On Monday, just as McAleenan wanted to begin speaking at the event at Georgetown University in Washington, several demonstrators were standing and holding banners that read, “Stand with Immigrants.”
“When our immigrants are under attack what do we do? Stand up fight back,” the protesters chanted for several minutes.
Caravans of migrants from Central American countries have been traveling for months through various routes ending up in Mexico to reach the country’s border with the US, where they seek to apply for asylum and settle down.
However, the Trump administration has been blocking them at the border with Mexico. The Trump administration has even separated migrant children from their parents or deported those who have successfully crossed back to their home countries, where they face violence or economic difficulties
Source: Presstv