More than half of asylum seekers rejected under tightened laws will remain in UK

The UK Home Office's own assessment shows a curious result from its new asylum restrictions. According to The Guardian, planned limits on human rights protections for people with family ties in the UK will reject about eleven thousand seven hundred claims. But more than half of those rejected applicants will stay in the country anyway. The rules restrict Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights, which currently protects people with family connections. So the government is tightening the law while acknowledging its own analysis shows the rejected applicants will remain—raising questions about whether the policy will actually work as intended.

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