Belfast judge says parts of the UK's migrant deportation law shouldn't apply to Northern Ireland

The United Kingdom's law to deport asylum-seekers shouldn't apply in Northern Ireland, because parts of it violate human rights protections, a Belfast judge ruled Monday. The Illegal Migration Act was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and undermines rights provided in the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998, High Court Justice Michael Humphreys said. US CAN LEARN FROM CONTROVERSIAL UK POLICY AS FIRST MIGRANTS ROUNDED UP FOR DEPORTATION, EXPERT SAYS U.K.

Sunak said that the Good Friday agreement wasn't intended to be 'expanded to cover issues like illegal migration.' The law was challenged by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and a 16-year-old Iranian boy who crossed the English Channel last year without any parents and claimed asylum in the U.K. The boy, who is living in Northern Ireland, said he would be imprisoned or killed if he's sent back to Iran.

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