US Immigration Policy

Luciana Berger Excerpts
Monday 30th January 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I am not seeking to defend, explicate or rationalise in any way the policy of the presidential Executive order. I merely seek to explain how it may affect UK nationals and dual nationals, and what we have done to mitigate its effects.

Luciana Berger Portrait Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree) (Lab/Co-op)
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On Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, the Prime Minister told us:

“Our commitment to remember the Holocaust is about more than words…It is about…standing up to prejudice…wherever it is found today.”

Why, then, was the Prime Minister unable on Saturday to adhere to her own call to action?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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The Prime Minister made it very clear that she did not agree with the policy.

Luciana Berger Portrait Luciana Berger
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She didn’t.

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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She did, and I have made it abundantly clear several times during the course of these proceedings that the policy is entirely a matter for the United States, but that my view is that it is divisive, discriminatory and wrong.