The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Border Security Bill) will turn seeking protection into a national security issue and expand counter-terrorism powers. The Bill includes a wide array of alarming clauses, such as: the criminalisation of providing supplies or information meant to assist the travel of an undocumented migrant, the extension of powers to seize people’s devices at the border, the reduction of routes to claim asylum, the expansion of the detention estate, the rest...
