Lord Scriven
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Illegal Migration Bill
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Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)
The Home Office very much wishes to stop the use of hotels. I hope there may be some announcements on that in the near future.
Lord Scriven (LD)
Does the Minister think it is humane and shows the sense of Great British compassion that, under the provisions of this Bill, an unaccompanied child fleeing war and arriving on these shores at the age of seven will, 11 years later at the age of 18, be deported to another country and have no automatic right of return to the country in which he or she has been for 11 years and made his or her life?
Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)
This is a scheme to prevent illegal immigration. That person would need to have paid a people smuggler to bring them across the channel. For the scheme to be coherent, age alone cannot automatically exclude membership from the cohort for removal.