Call for Amnesty for Asylum Seekers

   "Mr Blunkett should consider the radical option of declaring an amnesty. He should give all asylum-seekers currently here the right to remain, and start again."

In a move welcomed and supported by NCADC, The Independent, one of the UK's leading newspapers, is proposing that the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, should grant an amnesty to all asylum seekers in the UK at present.
This radical and welcome proposal comes after a report on the rising level of violent attacks against refugees and news that the Home Office is suspending dispersals to Sunderland because of the continuing attacks on refugees, including the murder in Sunderland of Iranian asylum seeker, Peiman Bahmani.
As NCADC reported on Monday 9th September 2002 in "NASS: is this the Final Meltdown!" the dispersal system is at breaking point. And the Home Office has no solutions, except to make things worse by disregarding its own guidelines.
An amnesty would not put an end to racist attacks, but it would make life for asylum seekers less fraught and more secure.

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