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UK proposes new law to curb illegal immigration
New Immigration bill States that the Home Secretary will be responsible for removing anyone who enters the UK illegally.
The UK has released details of a new immigration law barring the entry of asylum seekers to the UK in small boats; the proposed law is one of the five promises made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to the British people.
‘Stop the Boats’ or the Illegal Migration Bill will remove the incentive for people to risk their lives through these dangerous and unnecessary journeys and pull the rug from under the criminal gangs profiting from this misery once and for all, argued the UK government in favour of the bill.
Making the government stand clear on the introduced bill to British Parliament, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said, "It has to stop. By bringing in new laws, I am making it clear that the only route to the UK is a safe and legal route. If you come here illegally, you won’t be able to claim asylum or build a life here."
“You will not be allowed to stay. You will be returned home safe, or to a safe third country like Rwanda. It’s the only way to prevent people from risking their lives and paying criminals thousands of pounds to get here,†the Indian-origin minister cautioned.
According to an official release, the proposed Bill forms part of the action the UK government is taking to stop small boat crossings and illegal migration as a whole. The Bill stipulates that the Home Secretary will have a legal duty to remove people who have entered the UK illegally.
Additionally, the bill explains detention and bail, unaccompanied children, entry, citizenship and settlement, asylum, modern slavery, and legal proceedings, the list of countries considered safe, and the annual number of people using safe and legal routes.
Indian American author and wellness advocate Deepak Chopra was named in newly released records from the U.S. House Oversight Committee, which contains previously undisclosed email exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein.
The documents, drawn from more than 20,000 pages of material from Epstein’s estate and digital archive, show Chopra corresponding with Epstein between 2011 and 2016, years after Epstein became a registered sex offender.
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According to the records, Chopra wrote to Epstein in July 2016 seeking information about Marla Maples, then widely known as Donald Trump’s former wife.
1763672766.webp“Anything we share is between us,” Chopra wrote. “I share nothing with anyone but trust you.” Epstein replied with an anecdote about losing a bet to Trump during Maples’ pregnancy, saying he once “sent him a truck of baby food in payment.”
In a separate exchange from November 2016, Epstein shared a link to an article about a woman who had filed — and later withdrawn — a civil lawsuit alleging that Trump and Epstein sexually assaulted her in 1994 when she was 13.
Chopra asked whether she had also dropped the civil case against Epstein. When Epstein responded, “YuP,” Chopra replied, “Good.”
These emails however contain no evidence of financial dealings, professional ties, or criminal involvement between the two, and do not suggest Chopra had knowledge of Epstein’s illegal activities.
Chopra and his foundation have not responded to the allegations publicly.
Chopra was born in New Delhi in 1946 and trained as a medical doctor in India before moving to the United States in 1970. He began his medical career as an intern and resident in internal medicine and endocrinology, later serving as chief of staff at New England Memorial Hospital in Massachusetts.
In the mid-1980s, he became involved with the Transcendental Meditation movement and, by the 1990s, emerged as a prominent author and speaker on mind–body wellness, integrative medicine and spirituality, publishing dozens of books that have been translated worldwide.
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