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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI will take one last intervention.13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am sure the hon. and learned Lady has read the High Court judgment, which is an exhaustive and authoritative analysis by senior, learned judges of how our world-leading Rwanda…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI have to make some progress. I have taken quite a lot of interventions, I am afraid.13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWe have a proud and extensive tradition of offering refuge to hundreds of thousands of people who apply according to our system and our criteria. I am proud of the refuge and…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). He is absolutely right about Scotland where, until recently, only Glasgow was taking asylum…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am afraid that my right hon. Friend raises a very worrying fact about what we are seeing. When I have spoken to police chiefs around the country, they tell me that…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend puts it very well. What we have here is naive do-gooders who would rather campaign to prevent the removal of foreign national offenders, one of whom tragically went…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am going to make some progress. The reality is that the system is simply unfair. It is unfair on the most vulnerable, it is unfair on those who play by the rules and it is…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend puts it very well. We now have a sophisticated, well resourced, multibillion-pound trade of illegal people smuggling and human trafficking. It is pan-national…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI will go into this in detail, but yes, vulnerable people will be receiving appropriate safeguarding and welfare support. The British taxpayer cannot continue to fork out £6…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Billrose —13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The British public know that border security is national security, and that illegal migration makes us all less safe. They…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThis is what the British people want to see: they want to stop people dying in the channel. That is what this is about. It is naive to suggest that it is lawful and appropriate to…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am going to make progress. Despite the reasonable concerns that we have raised on several occasions, I am, like my right hon. Friend the Member for Witham (Priti Patel) before…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am going to make some progress. A lot of Members want to contribute to this debate. The United Nations has confirmed that, globally, there are 100 million displaced people. Our…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI appreciate your instruction to all our colleagues, Mr Deputy Speaker. The way to stop these deaths is to stop the boats. Secondly, the critics ignore the fact that our policy…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWhat we have seen is that a large and growing proportion of modern slavery claims have been made by people who have arrived here illegally. And, as I just mentioned, there are…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI have to correct the right hon. Lady on the fallacy under which she is operating. We are returning people who do not have a legal basis to be in this country. There are many ways…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend is right to highlight the legal complexity of this issue. There will be measures relating to rule 39 orders, and I refer him to the disapplication of section…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe hon. Lady is wrong. We have welcomed almost 500,000 people to the UK who are fleeing persecution, fleeing conflict and fleeing war, from Afghanistan, Syria, Hong Kong and…07 Mar 2023