People thought to be migrants wait to disembark from a British border ship in Dover last June. Photo: Matt Dunham/AP
Opponents The Immigration Minister said on Tuesday that the government's crackdown on small boats crossing the English Channel is a «humanitarian NIMBY» that doesn't want more migrants in their neighborhoods.
In his speech, Robert Jenrick will accuse politicians who promote «open borders» «virtuous signals» when in fact they refuse to accept their fair share of asylum seekers.
The main target of his attack will be the SNP in Scotland and Labor in Wales, as the data show. in all of Scotland there are fewer places for migrants in hotels than in the London Borough of Kensington.
His speech at the Policy Exchange think tank precedes Wednesday's report stage on the Illegal Migration Bill in the House of Commons, where ministers face uprisings from Conservative MPs over their plans to detain children, curb modern-day slavery demands and new powers to override orders from European judges.
This also coincides with the attacks on the plans of the migration committee of the Council of Europe, which described the bill as «a deliberate distortion of the main conventions of the UN and European conventions, in the development of which the UK itself participated.»< /p>
This followed the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which said it remained «gravely concerned». that the bill could cause the UK to violate its international legal obligations and expose migrants to «serious harm».
Mr Jenrick, however, will defend the bill, which effectively bans illegal migrants from seeking asylum in the UK, as necessary a radical overhaul because «correcting our broken system won't be enough.»
He will argue that this provides a coherent 21st century system to counter global mass displacement with «zero tolerance for illegal migration» coupled with «generous resettlement routes».
He will call open border advocates «naive» and invariably «humanitarian NIMBYs» who «rhetorically welcome refugees but then don't get their fair share.»
“These politicians flaunt and virtuously signal their supposed generosity. But there is nothing virtuous about making generous offers at the expense of others when it comes to housing supply, queues and tax burdens,” he says.
Scotland has provided hotel rooms for just 500 migrants compared to 600 currently stationed at Kensington and Chelsea. It is clear that there are even fewer migrants in hotels in Wales than in Scotland.
This means that Scotland accounts for only one per cent of the 51,000 migrants staying in hotels, even though it makes up eight per cent of the UK population. .
Mr Jenrick says Western governments must restore the integrity of their borders as they enter an «era of mass migration» fueled by people displaced by war, climate change and increased mobility.
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“The consequences were unprecedented volumes of illegal migration that put our public services at risk, weakened social cohesion and stalled integration efforts,” he says.
“If states want to maintain their sovereignty — their ability to exclude individuals persons from their territory — they need to find new ways to enforce their laws. Containment must be restored. Those who make illegal trips should know that it will be a futile attempt.”
That is why, he said, the illegal migration law, which gives ministers unprecedented powers to detain and expel illegal migrants, is required .
However, ministers are expected Wednesday to face an uprising by at least 20 Conservative MPs, led by former minister Tim Lawton, who want to limit the Home Office's powers to detain unaccompanied migrant children.< /p>
They want the law to stipulate time limits of up to 72 hours, and the courts to approve any extension of detention beyond this period.
Ministers have so far only offered concessions that unaccompanied migrant children will only be detained in limited circumstances, including when they must be taken out for family reunification abroad or if the Home Office disputes their claim that they are under 18 .
A number of senior Tories, including Sir Bob Neill, chairman of the Commons Justice Committee, also warned they would not support the bill as it stood if it caused the Home Secretary to ignore so-called injunctions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) under Rule 39.
The orders, which some Conservative MPs called “pajama injunctions,” were used late at night by a single judge at the European Court of Human Rights in June to stop the first flight to Rwanda.
Former Tory leaders Theresa May and Sir Ian Duncan Smith are pushing for the release of migrant victims of modern-day slavery in the UK from detention and expulsion.
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