An obsession with numbers
With the Tony Blair proudly announcing that the fall in numbers of people seeking asylum proves that the government has “turned the corner” on dealing with asylum seekers, it is worth bearing in mind how an obsession with numbers has affected Abas Amini, an Iranian Kurd who the Home Office is determined to deport regardless of the medical evidence proving that he’s been tortured.
A simplistic reliance on figures doesn’t lead to an improved method of dealing with asylum seekers. It simply puts pressure on civil servants to reject more applications regardless of the evidence.
Saturday 31 May 2003 | Paul | The Pit
