Home Office deporting migrants who cross Channel in small boats (The Guardian) (22 May 2020)

The Guardian reports that the Home Office has launched an initiative – known as Operation Sillath - to deport migrants who cross the Channel from France to the UK in small boats. Lily Parrott, trainee solicitor in the public law department, is working on a legal challenge concerning Operation Sillath and the return of asylum seekers to France. She comments; “We are increasingly concerned about a trend that we have seen where the Home Office seeks to remove people from the UK to France after they arrived to the UK by boat. We feel that this is being done illegally and on the basis of a conflation between the Dublin convention and a UK-France treaty about border management. This would be an egregious breach of European law that allowed many asylum-seekers to be wrongly removed from the UK.”