Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the Commons: “The purpose of this Bill is to strengthen UK border security, which has been weakened and undermined in recent years, to restore order to the immigration and asylum systems that were left in chaos, and to bring in new counter-terror-style powers for our law enforcement to go after the dangerous criminal gangs who undermine our border security and profit from putting lives at risk and who have been getting away with it for far too long.”.
Flagship immigration and asylum reforms clear first Commons test The Government’s flagship immigration legislation has cleared its first Commons hurdle as the Tories branded the proposals the “border surrender Bill”.
MPs voted 333 to 109, majority 224, to approve the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill at second reading after earlier rejecting a Conservative amendment designed to block the legislation.
She said: “We need power to take more action, and this Bill will enshrine the Border Security Command into law, enabling the co-ordination of law enforcement agencies with the sole focus of taking back control of our borders.”.
Mr Philp said: “This is a Bill which removes the obligation on the Government, it cancels the obligation on the Government to remove people who have arrived illegally.
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