Home Office Removal Targets Debate

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Department: Home Office

Home Office Removal Targets

Michelle Donelan Excerpts
Thursday 26th April 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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The targets that were apparently being looked at were for illegal migrants, so I think it is wholly different. There may be a time for a discussion about legal migration, but at the moment I think it is right that our focus is on illegal migration to make sure that it is handled in a fair, compassionate and transparent way.

Michelle Donelan Portrait Michelle Donelan (Chippenham) (Con)
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Yet again, the Opposition are playing politics with people’s lives. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is morally wrong to confuse illegal immigration with that of the Windrush generation?

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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My hon. Friend makes an important point about the strong difference between legal and illegal migration. If Opposition Members looked back at their own former Home Secretaries, they would find some very strong language and some clear targets on removing illegals from this country.