Absolutely, it does not, nor is it just to pillory the public and those who speak for them when they argue that we should enforce the law and that migration should be controlled. As a number of hon. Members have said, legal migration has been out of control for some time, and illegal migration, by its very nature, is both unjust and unfair because it breaks the law. It breaches that principle that people who arrive here and pursue legal routes are doing the right thing and that those who do not are simply doing the wrong thing and should be deported. That is what the public think, and that is what we should say very clearly.
Nationality and Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
John Hayes
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 19 July 2021.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Nationality and Borders Bill.
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