Sunday, April 13, 2008
Risk, What Risk?
The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, part of a service delivery group within the Ministry of Deportation and Incarceration, has brought our involvement in Iraq to a new level of fragrancy with a ruling that "Neither civilians in Iraq generally, nor civilians even in provinces and cities worst affected by the armed conflict, can show they face a 'serious and individual threat' to their 'life or person'... merely by virtue of being civilians", and that therefore the Government can deport asylum seekers to war zones. Since the Government had previously allowed itself only to deport those who were at risk of starvation, torture, death from cancer, etc., this will provide a welcome degree of increased flexibility in the workings of the Home Office. If any deportees get killed, it will show merely that they should have worked harder at proving the true degree of their future peril when the British Government so generously gave them the chance.
