Home Office planned speedy removal of Vietnamese trafficking victims (The Guardian) (29 September 2021)

“The Home Office detained more than 100 Vietnamese nationals who arrived on small boats in May but planned to speedily remove them from the UK despite them being potential victims of trafficking, the Guardian has learned. Public Law solicitor Tom Nunn , who dealt with some of the cases, expressed alarm at the mass detentions. “The DAC process can only be used for cases [the] Home Office believes are doomed to fail based on their reasons for claiming asylum. The Home Office’s own internal guidance suggests that this process cannot be used for Vietnamese nationals who are in fear of moneylenders or traffickers. All of those we came into contact with were claiming asylum for these reasons.””