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Shabana Mahmood’s “reckless” plans to create secure and authorized routes for asylum seekers will heap strain on Britain’s struggling communities, Robert Jenrick declared.

The Home Secretary has vowed to create extra secure and authorized routes, with a cap on the numbers of scholars and “skilled” refugees allowed to return to the UK.

But Mr Jenrick, the previous immigration minister, warned there’s not sufficient social housing for Britain to absorb hundreds of individuals when “there are already thousands of illegal migrants in asylum hotels”.

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick stated: “We need bold action, but Shabana Mahmood will only tweak and tinker around the edges, while leaving our broken model of asylum in place.

“And even worse, the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday of more “safe and legal” routes will only worsen the pressures on communities.

“We simply do not have the capacity. Where is the spare social housing? Where are the magical pots of council funding? There are already thousands of illegal migrants in asylum hotels. 106,000 are on direct taxpayer support.

“Labour are living in a parallel universe. Speaking at the House of Commons liaison committee in July, Keir Starmer insisted that there was “lots of housing available” to accommodate asylum seekers.

“While local authorities struggle to meet the needs of struggling Brits, Starmer believes that they should be made to house asylum seekers instead. He’s sending the British people to the back of the queue.”

Under Labour’s plans, asylum seekers might be granted non permanent safety within the UK, with opinions each 30 months to find out whether or not their house nation is secure for them to be returned house.

And the Government will goal households whose asylum claims have been refused for deportation, creating one other potential flashpoint with Labour MPs.

The Home Office can be forcibly deporting Syrians once more following the brutal civil conflict which ravaged the Middle Eastern nation.

Human rights legal guidelines might be overhauled to restrict how failed asylum seekers and overseas criminals can declare a proper to a household life.

A household might be outlined as “parents and their children”, beneath new Home Office plans.

But Ms Mahmood has additionally vowed to create extra secure and authorized routes to the UK.

The Home Secretary will set an annual cap on arrivals by secure and authorized routes, “based on community capacity”.

There might be capped routes for refugees, displaced college students and expert refugees, it’s understood.

This might be “flexible” to answer world crises, officers stated.

But Mr Jenrick pointed to the widening of an emergency scheme for Palestinian college students as a possible blueprint that Labour might comply with.

Gazans coming to check within the UK on scholarships will be capable of convey their companions and youngsters with them.

A cohort of scholars from the Palestinian enclave took up absolutely funded locations at UK universities in September, beneath particular preparations agreed by the Home Office to convey them safely right here.

But the Home Office stated members of the family might be a part of them.

Mr Jenrick added: “Just like with the Gazan route, these extra routes will open the door to more special pleading, more exceptions – and ultimately, more asylum seekers in communities that do not want them and cannot afford to host them.

“The truth is that the Labour Party just doesn’t have what it takes to fix this issue for good. They don’t recognise how serious the problem is. At every turn, they’ve been dangerously deluded about the scale of the crisis at our border.

“Without total reform of our asylum system, we will always end up with more people coming to this country than we can possibly handle.”

Housing and weekly allowances will not be assured for asylum seekers and people who can work or have beneficial belongings must contribute to their prices within the UK.

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage on Tuesday insisted the plans is not going to work.

He stated: “There’s a couple very, very basic things you have to do. Number one, you pass a law that nobody that comes via this route will ever be given refugee status. Number two, you are not free to walk the streets. You will be detained, as simple as that. And number three, you will be deported.

“And you know, it’s a really funny thing, I’m told ‘well, of course, we can’t send people back to Afghanistan.’

“Well, you know what?

“The Germans are sending planes to Afghanistan every single week. So all of this is about political will.

“All of this is not being afraid in the short term of being condemned by some international courts and communities.”

The plans introduced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood have confronted public condemnation from some Labour figures, together with a peer who fled to Britain as a toddler refugee.

Lord Alf Dubs stated it was a “shabby thing” that Ms Mahmood was utilizing “children as a weapon”.

“I find it upsetting that we’ve got to adopt such a hard line – what we need is a bit of compassion in our politics and I think that some of the measures were going in the wrong direction, they won’t help.

“The hard line approach will not, in fact, deter people from coming here – at least on the basis of people I spoke to in Calais, for example.”

The refugee campaigner additionally stated that “to use children as a weapon, as the Home Secretary is doing, I think is a shabby thing” as he pointed to the destiny of kids born within the UK and built-in into communities whose dad and mom are slated for elimination.