Immigration Watch International (2): Suella Braverman pledges to do 'whatever it takes' to tackle 'small boats problem' in the Channel

Monday, December 5, 2022

Suella Braverman pledges to do 'whatever it takes' to tackle 'small boats problem' in the Channel

The home secretary has pledged to do "whatever it takes" to deal with the "small boats problem" in the Channel.

Writing a foreword to a report by the centre-right Centre for Policy Studies think tank - which has called for new laws stopping migrants who enter illegally from ever settling in the UK - Suella Braverman said the numbers making the perilous crossing were "wholly unacceptable and unsustainable".

She added that ministers would "comprehensively tackle the small boats problem".

Ms Braverman insisted that calling for action on illegal migration was not "xenophobic or anti-immigration" and that she and Rishi Sunak were committed to dealing with the issue.

"The British public are fair-minded, tolerant and generous in spirit. But we are fed up with the continued flouting of our laws and immigration rules to game our asylum system," she wrote.

"And we've had enough of the persistent abuse of human rights laws to thwart the removal of those with no right to be in the UK. This must end.

"Saying so is not xenophobic or anti-immigration. It is the reality acknowledged and felt by the vast majority of the British public. To pretend otherwise is to insult them."

She added: "The prime minister and I are committed to doing whatever it takes. We are finalising our plan, and we will deliver the operational and legislative changes necessary to comprehensively tackle this problem."

The Centre for Policy Studies' report - co-authored by Theresa May's former adviser Nick Timothy - calls for the overhaul of human rights laws, with the UK "if necessary" withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, to allow detentions and offshoring the processing of asylum claims.

And it states that ministers should be looking for deals with other countries to supplement the currently stalled plan to deport migrants to Rwanda for processing.

The Home Office declined to comment on a report in The Sunday Times, claiming ministers are working on legislation which could ban asylum seekers who enter by illegal routes from ever settling in the UK.

Mr Timothy said tackling the issue would require a "completely different approach" from government, addressing a series of interconnected public problems.

"If we are to stop the crossings, we will need to take immediate and bold action," he said. "It is not something that can be fixed through gradual, incremental change."

It comes as Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said Albanians should be "excluded from the right to claim asylum" as they are coming from a "demonstrably safe" country.

https://news.sky.com/story/suella-braverman-pledges-to-do-whatever-it-takes-to-tackle-small-boats-problem-in-the-channel-12761679

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Suella Braverman pledges to do 'whatever it takes' to tackle 'small boats problem' in the Channel

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