Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill — 10 Feb 2025 at 21:46

“if you get effective legislation, and you get concerted effort across the system internationally, you can make a real difference.”

“this House, while welcoming measures to create new immigration criminal offences, declines to give a Second Reading to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, because an effective removals and deterrence arrangement is fundamental to stopping illegal immigration, but the Bill abolishes laws passed under the previous Government to ensure removals, and abolishes laws passed under the previous Government to ensure a deterrent by restoring illegal migrants’ ability to claim indefinite leave to remain and British citizenship; and because the Bill contains no proposals to limit legal migration, nor limit the eligibility criteria for settlement and citizenship, which means that the Bill will lead to increased illegal and legal immigration.”

“The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill should help UK law enforcement act earlier and faster to disrupt people smuggling networks and give us additional tools to target them and their business models.”

“You need a big deterrent to stop the migrants. Forget about the gangs-if you stop the migrants wanting to come to the UK, the gangs won’t exist.”

“strong demand for immigration services”.

“to allow law enforcement partners to disrupt, investigate and prosecute those facilitating organised immigration crime”,

“The Border Security Command is, for the first time, providing system leadership across those partners.”

“collecting key data across the system… This will support the BSC’s ability to drive cohesive delivery across the system”.

“You can ask for somewhere to live, a cash allowance or both as an asylum seeker… You’ll be given somewhere to live if you need it. This could be in a flat, house, hostel or bed and breakfast… You’ll usually get £49.18 for each person in your household. This will help you pay for things you need like food, clothing and toiletries.

“If you’ve been refused asylum but you’re still eligible for support you’ll be given: somewhere to live”

“£49.18 per person on a payment card for food, clothing and toiletries”.

“Criminalising men, women and children who have fled conflicts in countries such as Sudan does not disrupt the smuggling gangs’ business model. When a refugee is clambering into a boat with an armed criminal threatening them, they are not thinking about UK laws but are simply trying to stay alive. The most effective way to break the smuggling gangs’ grip is to stop refugees from getting into the boats in the first place, which means giving them a legal way to apply for asylum in the UK without crossing the Channel.”

“endangering another during sea crossing”

“Endangering another during sea crossing”.

“Although it is very unlikely, there is no absolute bar to prosecuting parents who have taken their children on journeys which come within the ambit of the Endangerment Offence, which could result in the break-up of families.”

“modernise the asylum and immigration system”-[Official Report, 17 July 2024; Vol. 752, c. 40.]

“maximising the effectiveness of the activities of partner authorities relating to threats to border security”.

“search and rescue and the safety of life”.

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