Debate on Immigration and Refugee Crisis

Those illegal immigrants, and they are illegal immigrants, are leaving a safe

country, France. They're not fleeing danger,

they're in France already.

Um, so I do agree it creates a massive pull

factor. Yes.

Gentlemen, thank the shadow minister for giving way.

Has he considered for a moment why there are so many

refugees globally? Why there are 70 million people

without a home to call their own? What the effects of wars,

environmental disaster, and human rights abuse has on populations

around the world? Shouldn't there be an international

effort to try to help those people as well as dealing with the problems at

home? Will putting up barbed wire all around the

world

solve the problem or create an even worse situation globally?

What I don't think will solve the problem is transferring tens,

potentially tens of millions of people, he gave the number just then, it was 60 or

70 million. Trans- transferring tens of millions of people

into the

West, I don't think is the right solution to this problem.

Those people who are depl- displaced are probably better helped close to their

country, uh, of origin. But transporting people on mass

into this country, um, I don't think, um, is the solution to that.

And by the way, the people who are crossing by small boat

are not the most

vulnerable. They're not typically women and children.

They're not people who are sick and vulnerable.

They are mostly young men who are paying people smugglers.

And if we were gonna choose who to help, it wouldn't be mainly young men who are

paying people smugglers. Now, Madam Deputy Speaker, um,

I'm gonna just make a

little bit of progress. I will give way again,

but I wanna make a bit of progress.

There'll be plenty of other opportunities-