The noble Baroness may make a valid point about the supermarket and the corner shop, but we are talking about operational details here. I will write to her if there is anything that I should add on that point. She may be right that to do what she suggests might make for a more economic system, but it would have the undesirable effect of encouraging a flood of economic migrants through the asylum route, which is why this Government and the previous Government have adhered to the current policy.
Immigration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Earl Attlee
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 17 March 2014.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Immigration Bill.
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