Yvette Cooper Accused Of Echoing Trump's 'Dangerous Rhetoric Of Hate' Over Asylum Seekers

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper speaks during the Organised Immigration Crime Summit at Lancaster House in central London, Monday March 31, 2025. Yvette Cooper has been accused of repeating Donald Trump’s “dangerous” characterisation of asylum seekers.The home secretary announced today that the government is changing the law to prevent sex offenders from being granted asylum in the UK as part of the border security bill.Speaking to BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, Cooper said the government has returned 24,000 people to their origin country “as a result of our strengthened work”.The minister also said they were reviewing court procedure where judges have overturned the decision to deport some people using the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to family life.But immigration and asylum policy expert Zoe Gardner slammed the home secretary’s language and compared it to the US president’s “rhetoric of hate” towards asylum seekers.Trump is currently cracking down immigration with mass deportations. On Monday, the White House announced the US would “strengthen and unleash America’s law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens”.In a thread on X, Gardner wrote: “Yvette Cooper on #r4today echoing Trump’s racist characterisation of asylum seekers as criminals & specifically rapists.“We are on such a dangerous path towards the same deranged, fascistic nightmare as they are seeing in the US – all justified by hatred of migrants & refugees.”She also accused the home secretary of being full of “dangerous rhetoric of hate but without any solutions”.Gardner continued: “To fix failures of our immigration system, we need politicians brave enough to make real change, not the same failed demonisation.“We need safe, regulated access to asylum to stop the boats & long-term status for migrants with equal work rights to end exploitation.“Words cannot express my disgust at the Labour government.“On Trump’s 100 days in power all his attacks on migrants have brought the USA is a descent into authoritarianism, people disappeared off the streets, jobs lost, economic chaos. But we have Cooper copying him #r4today.”Shadow home secretary Chris Philp also attacked Cooper over her announcement – but for an entirely different reason.He said: “This is too little, too late from a Labour government that has scrapped our [Rwanda] deterrent and overseen the worst year ever for small boat crossings – with a record 10,000 people crossing this year already.“Foreign criminals pose a danger to British citizens and must be removed, but so often this is frustrated by spurious legal claims based on human rights claims, not asylum claims.”Prime minister Keir Starmer’s spokesperson defended the government’s migration crackdown, telling reporters: “These tougher new laws are about keeping our streets safe, protecting women and girls and treating these cases with the seriousness they deserve.”Related...Labour Split Erupts After Asylum Seekers On Small Boats Banned From Becoming UK CitizensThe Tories Spent £715 Million Sending No Asylum Seekers To RwandaIsraeli Officials’ Calls For ‘Voluntary’ Migration Of Palestinians Alarm Human Rights Experts

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