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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out the failure by the Labour party to properly address this subject. The Leader of the Opposition does not mention it in his five big…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillUnspeakable tragedy is occurring in the channel and through all maritime routes around the world because of the global migration crisis. That is why it is absolutely essential…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend is right to identify the difficulties that we had in effecting flights to Rwanda in the summer of last year. As I mentioned, the Strasbourg court issued a…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend the Minister for Immigration is working intensively to secure bespoke, appropriate and—importantly—sustainable asylum accommodation around a range of…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWhat I find to be irresponsible and, frankly, incompetent is the Labour party voting against our measures to remove foreign national offenders, to streamline our asylum system and…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWe have several schemes open to people from all nationalities to come here via safe and legal routes. We will, thanks to the Bill, have a more comprehensive discussion and a…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe Bill introduces measures that we consider to be compliant with all our international obligations—in fact, we are certain.07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe message I would send to my right hon. Friend’s constituents is that we need to stop the boats coming here in the first place. Once we succeed with that objective, through the…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMay I put on the record my thanks to my hon. Friend? As an excellent Home Office Minister, he shepherded through many of the measures in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 that…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe package of measures I have brought forward represents a humanitarian set of measures that will, above all, deter people from making a dangerous and sometimes fatal journey in…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am incredibly proud of what the Conservative Government achieved in securing the agreement—the ground-breaking, world-beating agreement—with our friends and allies in Rwanda. I…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is irresponsible to suggest that someone who wants to control our borders and who says that the numbers are out of control and that we need a firm but compassionate line on…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillOur 10-point plan announced in December deals with the issue of asylum accommodation. It is unacceptable that over 40,000 people are being accommodated in hotels all over the…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWith respect to the right hon. Lady, it is wrong, naive and inflammatory to conflate people who come here legitimately, abide by our laws and come here on a legal basis with those…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Making progress on stopping illegal migration will enable us to better support genuine victims of modern slavery or human trafficking with…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely correct. Deterrence is the key theme running through these measures. We want to send the message loudly and clearly to people smugglers and people…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is right to point out the shameless position that the Labour party has adopted. We have passed measures to make it easier to remove foreign national rapists, drug…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillA lot of passion and fury and fire—I only wish the Scottish Government would bring so much passion to their approach to accommodating asylum seekers, when Scotland currently takes…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI thank the right hon. Lady for her remarks, but—forgive me—after five minutes of hysteria, histrionics and criticism, I am still not clear: I have no idea what Labour’s plan is.…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI think it is clear for everyone to see that our asylum system has been overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers of people arriving here and by the very high numbers being processed…07 Mar 2023