Nationality and Borders Bill Debate

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Department: Home Office

Nationality and Borders Bill

Nigel Evans Excerpts
2nd reading
Monday 19th July 2021

(2 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Second Reading
Nigel Evans Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)
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I have to report that the reasoned amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition has been selected.

5.55 pm

Priti Patel Portrait The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Priti Patel)
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I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

The British people have had enough of open borders and uncontrolled immigration; enough of a failed asylum system that costs the taxpayer more than £1 billion a year; enough of dinghies arriving illegally on our shores, directed by organised crime gangs; enough of people drowning on these dangerous, illegal and unnecessary journeys; enough of people being trafficked and sold into modern slavery; enough of economic migrants pretending to be genuine refugees; enough of adults pretending to be children to claim asylum; enough of people trying to gain entry illegally ahead of those who play by the rules; enough of foreign criminals, including murderers and rapists, who abuse our laws and then game the system so that we cannot remove them.