UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman laid down government’s Illegal Migration Bill before House of Commons in London on Tuesday. He is expected to announce plans to stop migrants who are arriving illegally in the country.
This comes as UK is mooting ways to deal with the issue of illegal immigrants crossing from the English Channel in small boats. Braverman is expected to address the House of Commons at around 12:30 GMT.
Additionally, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is also expected to make a statement, according to the reports.
Many migrants who cross the channel apply for asylum in UK. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier expressed his discontent over the issue and gave a straigh forward message, “Make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not to be able to stay.”
Sunak and his home secretary are expected to launch an legislation to “tackle illegal migration.” Provisionally termed as the illegal migration bill, is expected to make the asylum inadmissible. Sunak had also said earlier that the illegal migrants will deported “within days”
“The system that we need, the system that I want to introduce, is one whereby if you come here illegally, you should be swiftly detained and then in a matter of days or weeks we will hear your claim, not months and years, and then we will safely remove you somewhere else,” Sunak had told TalkTV. “And if we do that, that’s how we’ll break the cycle.”
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