Asylum seekers who arrive in the UK by crossing the Channel in small boats “cannibalise” communities by importing “different lifestyles and values”, the Immigration Minister has claimed singharj reports
Mr Jenrick was speaking at the Policy Exchange think-tank in Westminster as he prepared to see the Government’s controversial Illegal Migration Bill, which is designed to crack down on Channel crossings, through its final Commons stages on Wednesday.understands that ministers are in discussions about a concession to stop Tory moderates led by ex-minister Tim Loughton rebelling to amend the Bill to impose more stringent limits on the detention of lone children under the legislation.
“I saw this myself in the early days in this position, when I met residents of Aycliffe, an estate in Dover, whose lives have been made a misery by illegal migrants who have made clandestine landings on the nearby beaches – knocking on their doors, entering their homes being found in their kitchens,” Mr Jenrick said.
Asked what he meant about lifestyles, Mr Jenrick said it was important to ensure public services do not come under pressure. Mr Jenrick said some of these concerns “obviously apply in the same way” to legal immigrants, despite net legal migration rising to a record 504,000 in the year to last June, which the official economic watchdog says isMeanwhile, the minister suggested that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is urging international partners to help reform the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights,Mr Jenrick said the post-war agreements were “from a different era” and needed a “refresh”...
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