Taliban Commander’s Nephew Granted Asylum in UK Can be Joined by Seven Family Members, Judge Rules
A Taliban commander’s nephew granted refugee status in Britain can be joined by seven family members currently living in Turkey even though none of them speaks English or is able to work, an immigration judge has ruled. The Mail has the story.
None of them speak English, and a tribunal accepted they would place “a significant burden upon the public purse” if they were allowed to move to the UK.
But the relatives – the man’s parents, three sisters, a niece and nephew – have “no options” and are unable to return to Afghanistan, a judgment said.
It is the latest controversial ruling by Britain’s asylum courts and comes as ministers promise to restrict the rights of refugees to be joined by relatives.
The nephew, referred to only as ‘S’ in the ruling, arrived in Britain in 2016. He claimed to be 15 years old but was later age-assessed as 18.
His uncle was said to be a Taliban commander who had been pressuring his father to allow ‘S’ to “join the jihad”.
‘S’ was sent to Kabul by his father to get away from his uncle.
But ‘S’ was stabbed by two cousins because of the family dispute and he eventually fled Afghanistan, the tribunal heard.
In 2018 an immigration judge allowed him indefinite leave to remain in the UK after a psychotherapist said he had post-traumatic stress.
Meanwhile ‘S’s’ parents and sisters had all fled through Iran to Turkey where they feared being arrested and sent back to Afghanistan.
In 2023 his relatives applied to enter the UK citing the “right to private and family life” under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, but were refused.
However Upper Tribunal judge Gaenor Bruce has now decided the refusal of entry clearance to Britain was “unjustifiably harsh” and allowed the appeals on human rights grounds.
A lawyer for the family had argued that the sisters were all being threatened with forced marriage if they had stayed in Afghanistan, while ‘S’s’ father “faced retribution from his brother”.
One sister had married an Afghan man in Turkey – father to her two children – but they split up after he beat her with an iron bar, and was later deported. …
The judge accepted that allowing the family members to settle in the UK “would place a significant burden upon the public purse”.
‘S is presently unable to work and is reliant on public funds.
“It is not only likely, but inevitable, that this too will be the position of his family members once they arrive.”
But she concluded that was outweighed by ‘S’s’ desire to be reunited with his relatives and the “precarious” situation of the other family members.
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Judicial destruction. Muslim Jihadis and their extended families, all will be sucking on the welfare teat, the men will be doing the usual – crime, rape, beatings – demanding Sharia. The UK is a joke. Hell bent on self evisceration.
The establishment only supports itself. In this case, to pay itself with your money to solve the very same problems it creates.
Twas ever thus. But every so often, apparently at random, something happens to shift the balance of power a little in the direction of the little guy.
We are being royally shafted all day every day by the judiciary.
To oppose this is described by the Prime Mo sister as racist and divisive. Only the metropolitan self-regarding, leftist elites agree with him.
Mes while, the leader of the Tory Party which had a 14 year opportunity to do something about this (but only made it worse) is considering what policy to adopt in 2027. Her deputy is reeling off all sorts of ideas incompatible with their years in office and the views of a third of his MPs.
Only Reform has realistic policies snd determination to do something about the problem.
The alleged and potential violence of men in foreign places are not our problems to solve.
Heading Off-Topic for a minute, I love the way text prediction has turned our PM into “Prime Mo sister”. It might just stick!
Afghans are ALWAYS over-represented in the crime stats, particularly for all sex crimes. Just ban all Islam, full stop. They’ve plenty of other majority Muslim countries in the world to go and live compatibly, where integration would not be an issue. I feel bad for the women but the problem is you can’t realistically separate them from the men if they are married or have male relatives. There comes a point ( and that ship sailed a long time back ) when you have to just close the door on them and declare: ”Not my problem”, but as we know, this will have nowt to do with their human rights or the Trojan horse that is the asylum system. If someone digs they’ll probably find the judge is a Fabian or something ( they’re clearly oikophobes ), but either way, we know this is all happening by design. We see through their transparent facade of bullshit. A glimpse at the German crime stats re Afghans; ”When it comes to rapes and s3xua| assaults, the suspect rate for Afghans is 15 times higher than for Germans. What does this mean in concrete terms? On average, for every 100,000 German nationals, 7… Read more »
I am coming round to the opinion that where these people have infants under 5 these should be taken off them and given up for adoption by Christian (or at least, non-muslim) families, to reduce the risk of raising a generation of jihadis.
May I add: what kind of evidence do these people produce to convince the judge to grant the application? Just the day so of the people – all too conveniently fabricated….any judge worth his salt would dismiss it outright.
not this current crop of lefty judges.
I must have missed something here. Why doesn’t this young man go and live with his family rather than them coming to live with him. Wouldn’t that be much less disruptive to the family at large? What are we able to offer these troubled people that Turkey can’t. Oh damn, of course, I forgot!
Every female in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and who knows how many more 3rd world shitholes are at risk of forced marriage and FGM.
Should they all be allowed in?
Why couldn’t this guy stay in Turkey?
Because Turkey is already won for the Caliphate, whereas England is still being worked on.
There are over 50 Muslim majority countries. Why can’t this staggeringly wonderful person and his staggeringly wonderful family go to one of those?
I hope i am still around when our MSM are sadly reporting that a member of our esteemed judiciary has suffered a life altering event at the hands of one of these imports.
Anyone curious as to how a judge could be so treacherous to their own country just needs to click on Gaenor Bruce’s linkedin: SOAS, Middle east studies, human rights law, immigration and human rights chambers… it goes on. Everything that is wrong with our legal system.
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gaenor-bruce-2742b938
That’s a classic example of someone who shouldn’t ever have been granted refugee status as he wasn’t fleeing from state persecution. Sure, it’s bad when people become victims of crime or unorganized violence somewhere on the globe – as in was stabbed by two cousins because of the family dispute – but that’s happening everywhere and the solution to There’s private violence/ crime in Afghanistan is not Let all Afghan victims of crime (or those who claim to have been victims of crime) move to the UK to live on benefits everthereafter.
Refugees are people fleeing state persecution. Not some guy who once had a discussion which came to blows in some marketplace somewhere in the world. That’s for the local authorities to sort out. Or not if no law was broken (possible). But it remains a local affair.
Judges have zero accountability. We can’t vote them out and there’s no consequences for their decisions. They should be limited to criminal and civil cases.
Although I say send them all home, at the very least, immigration should be for the home office and should be justified publicly by the politician in that role.
These commies will destroy the west, they won’t stop until they are stopped.
Another left judge bending the rules and reasonings to suit his/her personal political stance. Imagine the amount this one family will cost the taxpayers? And the main guy is supposedly only 18? On average he would live to 75! Farage will something when in power but it may be too late!
This gets more interesting when reading a little between the lines: The family of this guy was living illegally/ semi-legally in Turkey, allegedly because of an internal quarrel with other family members (organized crime, anyone?). It seems pretty certain that they sent the youngest grown man they had among them specifically to the UK to gain entry here based on some wild story, including the untrue claim that he was a minor, and then fetch
the whole family once this had succeeded. It wouldn’t surprise me if they had already a British “human rights lawyer” paid by some “charity” at their disposal before this journey even started.
USA had the right immigration policy – only direct dependents are allowed to lodge a claim for family reunion. And only under age ones.
This case just highlights the absurdity of the UK policy destroying its own country in the process.
nephew and niece?
even the EU wouldn’t allow that.
Farage needs to make it clear that this travesty will be rescinded that they will go back to Afghanistan.
He isn’t planning to. He wants to get rid of people working in “British jobs” they shouldn’t ever have been allowed to take up. This may or may not include so-called refugees. They weren’t specifically mentioned but their legal rights are derived from something other than ‘just’ UK law Reform can (if in government) change in whichever ways it wants.