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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Could you therefore comment on whether the new powers in the Bill will have an effect on our ability as a society with law and order to crack down on some of that abuse?…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q But of course that is not a reason for not doing it, is it? Professor Brian Bell: Absolutely not.27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Therefore, do you share my view that, when we see the establishment along our borders of serious organised immigration criminals who are profiting greatly from their illicit…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Professor Bell, do you think that in a democracy it ought to be the elected Members and the Government who decide who can come to our country, rather than criminals and people…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Of course, asylum claims are up because they were not being processed, but now they are. That is dealing with the backlog that was caused by the problems with the Illegal…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q But the reality was that tens of thousands of people had arrived and could not be processed, because of the Illegal Migration Act and its flaws. They were just living in hotels…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you believe in universal human rights—that all human beings are equal and deserving of universal human rights? David Coleman: I suppose, as a rather bad Christian, I am bound…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Eugenics was discredited because of the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, was it not? David Coleman: It got a terribly bad name for that reason—exactly so. That is why,…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)But it is a eugenics organisation? David Coleman: No, it is not. It is devoted to genetics research and has conferences every year on genetics research. It promotes research into…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Professor Coleman, are you a member of the Galton Institute? David Coleman: Yes and no. The Galton Institute does not exist any more; it has changed its name to the Adelphi…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q You mentioned that trying to deal with the problems of illegal or irregular immigration can mean being, in some ways, “nasty to the smugglers”, which the Bill is, but also nasty…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)You still have not told us what indigenous means, but thank you very much.27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Migration Watch’s website says that you are worried about population projections and a “significant fall in the percentage of the indigenous (white British) population.” Can you…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q We often hear that organised immigration crime is very lucrative, well established and transnational, and that there is therefore no point in doing a lot about it. What is your…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Starting with Rob Jones, what do the witnesses think the Bill does for them operationally? Rob Jones: It gives us the opportunity to make the most of the intelligence dividend…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (First sitting)Q What is your general opinion of the changes that would be introduced to the current immigration law structures with the repeal of the Safety of Rwanda Act and the vast majority…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (First sitting)Q Zoe, what is your view on the idea that has gained traction in certain areas of this debate—that the Human Rights Act and the ECHR are effectively preventing us from having a…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (First sitting)Q You said something really interesting in your first comment: that you felt some of the people arriving on small boats are doing so because we are out of the Dublin system—in…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (First sitting)Q Dr Walsh, you have just argued that deterrence does not really work, yet one of the big arguments on Second Reading was that somehow by repealing the Safety of Rwanda Act and…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (First sitting)Q Mubeen, do you have a comment? Mubeen Bhutta: I do not have anything more to add to the important points that Daniel made.27 Feb 2025