Asylum Hotels and Illegal Channel Crossings Debate
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Pete Wishart
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Asylum Hotels and Illegal Channel Crossings
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Dame Angela Eagle
Yes. Of course, we have to crack down on abuse of our asylum system, but also on the exploitation of vulnerable and desperate people by vicious criminal gangs.
Pete Wishart (Perth and Kinross-shire) (SNP)
During Committee proceedings on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, I said to the Minister that it would only be a matter of time before the Government concocted some sort of Rwanda-style deportation scheme. Even I did not think that it would come so quickly, if weekend press reports are to be believed. Can the Minister say that those reports are totally not true, and will she now rule out ever implementing a third country deportation scheme like the one introduced by the Conservatives?