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Illegal Migration Bill

Debate between Suella Braverman and Damian Collins
Tuesday 7th March 2023

(1 year, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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Aside from humanitarian routes into this country, we also have an extensive points-based system, which we developed post Brexit. Thanks to our freedom on migration, we have issued a record number of work and study visas in the last year alone. People who want to come here for legitimate reasons should go through our points-based system.

Damian Collins Portrait Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe) (Con)
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My constituents on the south Kent coast have seen with their own eyes the rapid increase in small boat crossings in the past few years. Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that our priority must be to stop these dangerous journeys, and that the most effective way to do that is to demonstrate that they cannot be a shortcut into the asylum system and will not lead to permanent residency in the UK?

Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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Getting into a flimsy dinghy wearing a thin polystyrene excuse for a life jacket, paying thousands of pounds, breaking our laws and putting one’s life at risk is not the way to come to the United Kingdom. That is what this Bill is all about.