While we agree with the Home Secretary that the asylum system is broken, we invite her to make it clear, given the long-term and growing pressures on the system, that it was not migrants crossing the Channel who broke it.

While we agree with the Home Secretary that the asylum system is broken, we invite her to make it clear, given the long-term and growing pressures on the system, that it was not migrants crossing the Channel who broke it. Type: conclusion | Number: 2 | Paragraph: 14 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The Government is committed to fixing the broken asylum system which now costs the taxpayer £2bn a year to operate including over £5m a day on hotels. The high number of migrants making illegal and dangerous journeys across the channel, rather than claiming asylum in the first safe country they reac