Speaking live to BBC News UK Sangeetha looks at the Home Secretary’s newly revealed New Immigration Plan through a legal lens. Sangeetha explains why the proposals are shocking on several legal levels and that the bedrock of the Plan relies on political myths that are not only incorrect, but dangerous. She highlights that judges should not be…
The Home Secretary today revealed her New Plan for Immigration, a monumental overhaul of the UK’s asylum system. Asked to provide expert legal comment, Sangeetha admonishes the legal errors underlying the New Immigration Plan. In a live interview given directly after the Home Secretary’s addresss to Sky News, Sangeetha deplores the Home Office’s abuse of the…
Sangeetha was asked to provide comment as a renowned International Human Rights expert for Al Jazeera‘s piece into Matteo Salvini’s ongoing criminal trial. Former Interior Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini could be indicted for charges of kidnapping and dereliction of duty in two separate cases involving the coastguard ship Gregoretti and the Spanish NGO rescue…
Sangeetha was invited onto LBC radio today to speak with host Nick Ferrari. She urged that an objective and dispassionate perspective is taken when considering what is happening in the Channel. Sangeetha dispelled myths surrounding asylum seekers and highlighted that their journeys of refuge and hardship do not end at the UK border. One example…
Sangeetha was invited onto Sky News on 8th August 2020 to discuss the rise in small boat Channel crossings in recent days. Interviewed by Vanessa Baffoe, Sangeetha explained the problem first, before discussing the proposed ‘call to Naval arms’ by UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel. The tragedy of asylum seekers taking this perilous journey across…
Sangeetha was invited onto LBC News on 7th August 2020 to discuss the sharp rise in migrant crossings across the Channel and the Home Secretary’s management of the situation. In the hours before the radio interview, press reports suggested that the Home Secretary wanted to involve the Royal Navy to help manage the in-flow of…
Sangeetha has been commissioned by the London Times to write about the legal implications of Europe’s recent border violence. Her article “The EU have chosen strong borders over legal duties – The Migrant Crisis in Greece is the inevitable result of years of seeing the right to asylum as a weapon rather than an obligation”…