United Kingdom: Minister calls migration ‘invasion’ – 11/02/2022 – World

home Minister UKSuella Braverman came under fire this Tuesday (1st), after calling the run. Migrant Via the English channel “Invasion”.

In parliament to debate a legislative proposal on long-term detention of migrants in processing centres, he said the current migration system was “out of control”.

Amid debate in the House, the minister said he was working to stop the “invasion of the south coast”. Arrival of migrants in boats. “Let’s all stop pretending Refugees Trouble is, the country knows it’s not true,” said Braverman, the daughter of immigrants from the East African country of Kenya and Mauritius who came to England in the 1960s.

The minister also accepted a member of parliament’s claim that migrants should “get on a boat and go back to France” if they are not satisfied with the British reception.

Immigration Secretary Robert Genrick, who reports to the Home Office, tried to soften the blow by saying the president’s remarks reflected the scale of the challenge to be faced, but said it was “necessary to choose words wisely”. , was given the position of holding.

Immigration experts condemn the use of the term “invasion” to describe migrant flows. For João Chaves, coordinator of migration and asylum at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in SP, calling migrants invaders “puts them on the same level as enemies”. “Everyone has the right to seek asylum.”

UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), in a guide for communication professionals and students, states that “the term ‘invasion’ is commonly associated with wars, destruction, violations and illegal acts in general”. “When used to refer to a particular flow of migrants or refugees, it carries the message that this flow may disrupt or threaten the existing order and routine.”

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In Parliament, Braverman defended the decision to house thousands of people in a processing center in Kent County during a debate on migration, despite allegations that he deliberately ignored a legal recommendation to move migrants to hotels.

David Neill, Chief Inspector for Borders and Migration, described the accommodation conditions. Designed to receive 1,500 migrants a day and for just 24 hours, the center has doubled its capacity, and one Afghan family said they had been there for at least 32 days.

Some lawmakers, including members of the Conservative Party from Braverman, rushed to limit the damage caused by the comments. Tommy Shepard, of the Scottish National Party, said the minister had used “far-right inflammatory rhetoric”.

Sunak’s spokesman contradicted the minister and described the country as “accepting and compassionate” to migrants. The minister said that his dream was to see it on another occasion Flight to Rwanda carrying deported asylum seekers Said to be the target of a “political witch hunt”.

In Albania, the prime minister criticized British politicians for their comments on migration, particularly in relation to the increase in the number of Albanians crossing the English Channel – 11,000 between May and September this year, compared to 815 in the same period in 2020.

Edi Rama said that London was using the Albanians as scapegoats for problems in the field in light and crazy rhetoric.