Free Movement has highlighted how the International Aid budget is being diverted from projects abroad and being used to fund asylum accomodation in UK hotels. This now accounts for one-third of the budget, which had already been controversially reduced from its previous level. 
https://freemovement.org.uk/uk-spends-one-third-of-international-aid-budget-on-domestic-asylum-costs/ 

Spiralling asylum costs are largely due to the use of hotels for new asylum arrivals. According to the BBC, the companies owning the hotels are charging inflated prices, and have posted substantially increased profits as a result.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64991234 

Is the Illegal Migration Bill compatible with our obligations under the Refugee Convention? An article in Free Movement explains in some detail why the bill effectively defeats the whole purpose of the Refugee Convention, and why, if it was followed by other countries, it would lead to the destruction of the convention itself.
https://freemovement.org.uk/how-does-the-illegal-migration-bill-breach-the-refugee-convention/?mc_cid=46b755ef71&mc_eid=82530752af 

There are a number of campaigns against the Illegal Migration Bill being run by refugee organisations. NACCOM has very helpfully collated them. Here they are - 

• Refugee Action - Email Your MP action  - Shareable here on Twitter 
• Women for Refugee Women – Prevent the indefinite detention of pregnant women - Write to your MP
• AIUK – Email your MP, shareable on Twitter 
• Detention Action – Email your MP, shareable on Twitter
• Freedom from Torture - petition, shareable on Twitter. 
• Praxis - petition, shareable on Twitter
• Refugee Council – campaign for a fair and humane asylum system - Shareable on Twitter
• Safe Passage – Email Your MP - Shareable on Twitter 

Over the years, the UK has introduced numerous policies to make seeking asylum in the UK less attractive. Most recently, 2021 to 2023 has seen the UK government propose measures designed explicitly to deter people from seeking asylum in the UK. This briefing from the Migration Observatory brings together statistics and research evidence that suggests the measures may well not work.
https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/uk-policies-to-deter-people-from-claiming-asylum/ 

Latest Asylum Statistics show an ever growing backlog of asylum cases, numbers of arrivals compared to France, Germany and Spain, and a host of other revealing facts that suggest that the UK asylum system is in need of a radical overhaul. Free Movement has put the stats all together in easily understandable graphs.
https://freemovement.org.uk/latest-asylum-stats-show-the-home-office-failing-on-all-fronts/ 

The Independent reports that the government has given up trying to send some asylum seekrs to Rwanda. Asylum lawyers are saying that a number of 'notices of intent' have been withdrawn, allowing those seeking asylum into the UK asylum system.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rwanda-asylum-seekers-small-boats-b2319923.html

An article in the Guardian reveals that the Home Office has introduced a course for immigration staff which encourages them to show more empathy. The Post-Windrush training module urges caseworkers to call asylum seekers ‘customers’.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/16/home-office-course-tells-immigration-staff-to-show-more-empathy 

The Guardian also reports that UN special rapporteurs have warned the Uk government that asylum seeker children placed in hotels, many of whom have gone missing, face a real risk of being trafficked.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/11/un-experts-warn-uk-government-over-trafficking-risk-faced-by-asylum-seeker-children