THE scale of illegal migration into the UK is a “national crisis”, according to Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp.
Speaking on GB News this morning, Philp said: “Since the election, the numbers of illegal immigrants in these asylum hotels has actually gone back up again. It’s gone up by about 8% so I accept it should never have got to 400. That is a fair point. I accept that.
“But the last government did get it down from 400 to 200 in nine months, and if that rate of reduction had continued right now, we’d have no illegal immigrants in hotels at all.
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“We now have a new leadership. I’m the new shadow Home Secretary. We’ve got a new leader. We have a new approach, which is to make sure every single illegal immigrant crossing the Channel is immediately removed, and that will firstly mean no one staying in hotels or apartments or anything else.
“It will also have a massive deterrent effect, because if you’re an illegal immigrant in Europe, you’re not going to bother crossing if you know you’re going to get immediately removed.
“This is a national crisis, in my view. It’s a border crisis. It’s also a public safety crisis, because we’ve seen hundreds of these illegal immigrants in the hotels getting charged with serious criminal offences, including sexual assaults against women and girls as young as eight.
“One of these men was convicted recently for raping a 15-year-old girl, and his part of his defence in court was to say it was he didn’t understand it was wrong because of his culture. He was from Afghanistan, which is an absolutely disgraceful thing to say, but it highlights that this border security crisis is also putting women and girls at risk.
“Enough is enough. It has to end. But this government is too weak to do what is needed. What is needed is to remove everybody, every single person, 100%, who crosses the English channel by small boat.
“They’re just not willing to do it because they don’t understand it’s a crisis, and as they themselves, have admitted, they’re more interested in the so-called human rights of illegal immigrants than they are in protecting the British public.”
