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Straw gets tougher on asylum • Help for hauliers who

8th February 2001
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risk unwittingly carrying stowaways across the Channel could come from the unlikely source of Home Secretary Jack Straw.

He is calling for panEuropean action to be taken against the growing problem of Illegal immigrants.

He is said to be considering turning away some asylum seekers arriving in Britain from France as a means of curbing illegal immigration.

It is not clear if hauliers who brought those stowaways across would still be fined. However, the government's move might make the UK a less attractive target for would-be immigrants.

Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to press for France's support when he meets President Jacques Chirac at an AngloFrench summit tomorrow.

This week Straw is asking EU states to support his proposal to prevent refugees from travelling across Europe before claiming asylum. "We have got to get EU-wide agreement and common asylum poll

cies and principles," he adds.

Straw also wants EU members to support an overhaul of the 1951 UN Convention on Human Rights and to agree a clearer definition of genuine refugees and economic migrants.

Under one proposal refugees would be prevented from travelling to an EU country until their asylum application had been processed in the first "safe" country in which they arrived.


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