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The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, travelled to Washington DC this week and delivered a remarkable speech covering the failure of multiculturalism, the impact of mass migration and the urgent need to reform the global asylum rules.
Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday, the Home Secretary said that “uncontrolled and illegal migration” is an “existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West.”
She went on to point out that the potential for further increases in global migration was “truly colossal” and that around 900 million wanted to permanently leave their home country. She also outlined the ‘four core arguments’ against uncontrolled, illegal migration.
In short, the civic argument is that it has proven impossible to integrate migrants arriving thanks to the scale and speed of mass migration. All it does is lead to the development of “parallel communities”. Not only was the impact on society great but the cost of the UK asylum system has soared to nearly £4 billion annually, while overall immigration has been behind 45% of housing demand.
The Home Secretary went on to outline the risks to national security, detailing a link between illegal immigration and crime, as well as how easily it can be “weaponised” by hostile states. Rounding up, Mrs Braverman pointed out what so many politicians have repeatedly ignored: that the British public have consistently been against mass immigration and yet have been lied to time after time. As the Home Secretary said, “Without public consent, immigration is illegitimate.”
The Home Secretary concluded by making the case for reforming global asylum rules, making clear that the bar should be raised for asylum claims and that claims should be made in the first safe country reached by those fleeing persecution (as opposed to discrimination).
This was the Home Secretary’s call for reform of both the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention. She was brave to do so, and we agree with what she said. Where we would hesitate from supporting her is the implied suggestion that we should now embark on a lengthy, UN-led process to reach international agreement before the UK takes action, by withdrawing from either convention and in particular the ECHR.
Not that we have much confidence that a long, drawn-out negotiating process will lead to anything remotely relevant to what is needed. It will simply push the problem into the long grass and we would strongly oppose it.
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