Asylum seekers and refugees

Fact checks about refugees and asylum seekers in the UK

10 February 2017

The Dubs Amendment: 3,000 refugee children?

The government never officially said that 3,000 child refugees would be accepted under the Dubs Amendment, although some campaigners say they expected that many to arrive.

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1 February 2017

The UK, the USA, and Syrian refugees

We’ve looked into Jeremy Corbyn’s and Theresa May’s claims on the government response to the recent US order on refugees, and to the wider Syrian crisis.

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31 October 2016

Why do migrants and asylum seekers want to come to the UK?

We look at what the experts say on how, if at all, asylum seekers choose between potential countries of refuge.

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25 October 2016

We aren't spending £36m just to close the Calais 'jungle'

The UK has committed £36 million to “maintain security” in Calais. Some of this money will be used to close the ‘Jungle’ camp, but some is also being spent on border security and keeping child migrant

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9 February 2017

Ask Full Fact: 'Dubs' and 'Dublin'

What are the Dubs 'amendment' and 'Dublin regulation', and why are they relevant to closing the migrant camp at Calais?

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24 October 2016

Do 74 people try to enter the UK illegally every day?

There were 164,000 attempts to cross into the UK made between 2010 and 2015, although these figures don’t correspond to individual people.

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3 October 2016

Have 12,000 asylum seekers vanished in the UK?

Home Office data makes it unclear exactly what it means to have an asylum application “on hold”.

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29 September 2016

How is the EU doing on refugee relocation?

The EU programme for relocating asylum seekers within Europe has seen 6,000 people move country in the past year.

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20 September 2016

Unaccompanied refugee children in Europe

How many unaccompanied children are in Europe and how many are claiming asylum here?

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31 August 2016

Counting the number of migrants in the Calais ‘jungle’

Officials and charities disagree over an extra 2,000 migrants in the Calais camp. We look at how both got their figures.

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