Unnecessary cruelty of the UK’s immigration and asylum system

In intrusive Home Office interviews where case workers have targets for rejection, lost and grieving people’s claims fail almost routinely, with reasons given such as: “You could not say what day it was when you emerged from under the bodies of the family you claim was massacred”, and “Your dislocated limbs could have been caused by heavy sports activities [rather than torture]” or “You claim you fled to your uncle’s house and then say he was just a fami