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Good morning. It’s day two of what is down on the No 10 grid as “small boats week” and this morning the government is publicising the existence of the “professional enablers taskforce”, a group set up to beef up enforcement action taken against lawyers who knowingly help migrants make false immigration claims. The taskforce has been running for a while now, but the Home Office has decided to promote it today, with a press release quoting Suella Braverman, the home secretary, saying:
Crooked immigration lawyers must be rooted out and brought to justice. While the majority of lawyers act with integrity – we know that some are lying to help illegal migrants game the system. It is not right or fair on those who play by the rules.
Aubrey Allegretti has written up the story for the Guardian here.
Taskforce to pursue lawyers who ‘coach’ clients to lie on UK asylum applications
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But the story is getting the biggest show in the Daily Mail, which is particularly interested in the topic of “crooked immigration lawyers” because they recently published an investigation that led to the Solicitors Regulation Authority closing three law firms where there was evidence (obtained undercover by the Mail) exposing lawyers or legal advisers telling someone posing as an economic migrant how to fabricate a story that might allow them to successfully claim asylum....
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