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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T20:54:39.000Z",
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    "Teenage Crowborough resident fears for her safety as Labour extends asylum housing for four years",
    "Lib Dem MP left 'frustrated' at plans to house asylum seekers in small Bicester community",
    "Nursery worker who abused 21 babies walks free after 'deportation blunder'",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nAsylum seekers are abusing human rights laws to resist their deportation from Britain, the Home Office has admitted.\n\nFindings from Shabana Mahmood's department showed that illegal migrants were fighting their removal by deploying Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to private and family life.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe enshrined article has been manipulated as a way for asylum seekers to defy state-ordered deportation and, as a result, Britain has been called on to rip up the UK's commitment to the ECHR.\n\nThe usage of the article has led to cases, including the notorious case, where an Albanian criminal dodged deportation because his son turned his nose up at foreign chicken nuggets.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn 2025 alone, some 77,000 people were allowed to stay in the UK on account of the infamous clause, which makes up more than half of the 149,000 applications granted for family reasons.\n\nAlthough Labour has said that it remains committed to the controversial convention, the Government ceded that reforms are necessary.\n\nThe article was originally drafted as a way to protect family units in the face of potential and genuine separation.\n\nThe same analysis also revealed that 54 per cent of appeals against Home Office refusals were upheld by courts under the Article\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nSome 71 per cent of in-country grants on the family clause were given to migrants who had entered Britain illegally or were overstaying their visa.\n\nMeanwhile, 86 per cent of people waiting to be deported in detenetion were set free after they triggered rights-based applications.\n\nThe costs over the lifetime for applicants across 2025 alone is estimated to sit at around £4.9billion, a weight which will be burdened by the British taxpayer.\n\nFrom 2015/6 and 2025/6, immigration judges permitted 64,000 appeals on human rights grounds, the Home Office said.\n\n### BRITAIN'S BORDERS CRISIS:\n\n\n\n\n  * Teenage Crowborough resident fears for her safety as Labour extends asylum housing for four years\n  * Lib Dem MP left 'frustrated' at plans to house asylum seekers in small Bicester community\n  * Nursery worker who abused 21 babies walks free after 'deportation blunder'\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nEach case 71 weeks to resolve and will come to the individual cost of £141,000 across a lifetime.\n\nMigrants seeking to resist deportation have also learned that delaying their removal can support their bid to remain within Britain's borders.\n\nAs time goes on and papers are shifted from one desk to another, the migrant is able to settle themselves into British life further, boosting their case to stay.\n\nMany put in last-minute evidence submissions, disappear or repeatedly seek one appeal after another to delay their case.\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe Home Office pointed to one case, where a migrant put in seven claims across a decade. Such bureaucracy culminated in the individual staying in the UK for two decades.\n\nLast week, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp declared that the Tories would strip judges of powers to rule on migrants' appeals against deportations.\n\nHe reiterated Kemi Badenoch's demand to leave the ECHR to assist with \"regaining control\" over Britain's borders.\n\nInstead, Mr Philp outlined that the Home Office would act as the main decision-making body on immigration decisions, asssiting with a speedier turnaround for appeals.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Asylum seekers abusing human rights laws to resist deportation from Britain"
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