The Conservative Party have introduced a Deportation Bill to Parliament. Chris Philp MP, Shadow Home Secretary, said: “Labour and Reform are both complicit in the trade of empty slogans and hollow promises. Our plan can be enacted now to get immigration back under control.”
The Bill’s main elements are:
- Automatic deportation for anyone who arrives in the country illegally.
- Introducing an annual cap on migration – Ensuring migration levels are determined by the British people.
- Doubling the residency requirement for Indefinite Leave to Remain from 5 to 10 years – British citizenship is a privilege to be earned, not a right to be claimed.
- Creating new powers to revoke Indefinite Leave to Remain – Allowing us to remove those who have become a burden to the UK.
- Disapplying the Human Rights Act from all immigration-related matters – Preventing foreign nationals from exploiting our court system.
- Increasing the salary threshold for work visas to £38,700.
- Introducing powers to deport all foreign criminals – If you break the law here, you go home.
This all seems eminently sensible to me. But what is the chance of it becoming law? Rather low I suspect because the Labour Party is keen to have more low-paid immigrants in the country who are more likely to vote for them as the UK’s social security system is way too generous and easy to exploit. Gerrymandering is the name of the game.
More information here: https://www.conservatives.com/news/conservatives-introduce-the-deportation-bill
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