china. let s start with a big story here in the uk. the home secretary has set out her plans for a crackdown on migrants arriving on small boats from france. the government wants to stop asylum seekers from crossing the english channel. earlier today, the prime minister visited the port of dover where he met with staff in a control room monitoring those arriving in vessels via illegal routes. and later on, he spoke from downing street. there is nothing compassionate or fair about us being not able to help the truly most vulnerable people around the world because our system is being overwhelmed by people who were jumping the queue, and coming here illegally, and they are not the most vulnerable. they are travelling through multiple safe european countries, they are paying people thousands of pounds to get here. so, i want to move to a system
should decide who comes here, and not criminal gangs. now the first step is understanding the nature and scale of what we are dealing with. the number of people entering the uk illegally in small boats has more than quadrupled injust illegally in small boats has more than quadrupled in just the last two years. those illegally crossing the channel are not directly fleeing a war torn country or persecution, or an imminent threat to life. they ve travelled through safe european countries. they are paying people smugglers huge sums to make this dangerous, and sometimes tragic journey. now the reason that criminal gangs continue to bring small boats over here is because they know that our system can be exploited. that once here, illegal migrants can make a multitude of asylum, modern slavery and spurious human rights claims to frustrate
by criminal gangs and smugglers, i was talking with teams i have to deal with us on the ground, as the minister sees every week. there s nothing compassionate about that system the macro situation persisting, and there s nothing fair about us not being able to help the truly most vulnerable people around the world because our system is being overwhelmed by thosejumping the queue and coming here illegally. and they are not the most vulnerable, they are travelling through safe european countries, they are paying thousands of pounds to get here. i want to move to a system where we break that cycle, we deter people from coming here illegally and jumping the queue, and we can then decide who we bring here, how many, and make sure that we target that support on the world s most truly vulnerable people, and that s why the legislation we are announcing today does the things we need to break the
s rians iranians come legally? what the syrians and iranians come legally? what the syrians and iranians iranians come legally? what the syrians and iranians and - iranians come legally? what the syrians and iranians and the - syrians and iranians and the suchlike need to do is to claim asylum in a safe country. they can t say, i know, let s go to the uk because we like them the best. that s not right and proper. if that was the system then there are 80 million refugees and they would all be coming to the uk. you have to have some control. so these people are quite able to claim asylum in a safe european country if they wish. there may be 80 million refugees but it s absurd to suggest they would all come to the uk if there was what you are proposing there. is there a safe route for people from iraq or ethiopia or syria to come to the uk? not at the moment, no. so ethiopia or syria to come to the uk? not at the moment, no.
they are quite literally doing the photo up thing. there are few things that demonstrate the staggering incompetence of the big government loving government knows all best joe biden administration and this tragedy. it is tragic for mothers everywhere baby formula situation class a government style they took a small problem and they mismanaged it and turn it into a full-blown crisis and now they have the audacity to have these photo ops with these planes flying in a couple days worth of formula. look, right now instead of working months ago to boost manufacturing to lower the regulatory barriers to import safe baby from left from europe, as were speaking the are enforcing an import ban from safe european on the border of the united states a joe biden administration is seizing and destroying for the wall street journal baby formula all the while thousands are basically going without food in this country several of them are already being hospitalized. we slashed regulatory s red tape