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UN Official: Deporting Extremist Migrants Contravenes Refugee Convention

by Donna Rachel Edmunds British laws allowing for the deportation of migrants who exhibit “extremist behaviour” may contravene a United Nations convention on refugees rights, the general assembly of that body is to hear. In a speech slamming national governments for their reticence over open borders, the UN official responsible for reporting on counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson QC, is set to single out the UK for setting restrictions on taking in migrants who may be a threat, a policy which he says stokes public fears of terrorism, The Guardian has reported. Specifically, he will slam a Home Office report, Asylum Policy… View Article