division_name: Nationality and Borders Bill &#8212; [2nd Allocated Day]
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b827.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Nationality and Borders Bill, notwithstanding the need to address the increasing number of dangerous boat crossings in the English Channel, because the Bill breaches the 1951 Refugee Convention, does not address the Government&#8217;s failure since 2010 to competently process asylum applications which has resulted in a backlog of cases and increased costs to the taxpayer, fails to deal with the serious and organised crime groups who are profiteering from human trafficking and modern slavery, does not address the failure to replace the Dublin III regulations to return refugees to safe countries, fails to re-establish safe routes and help unaccompanied child refugees, and fails to deliver a workable agreement with France to address the issue of boat crossings.&#8221;&#8212;(Nick Thomas-Symonds.)</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b830.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Our collective response should be comprehensive and complementary&#8212;from saving lives to combating smuggling rings, expanding legal options, and ensuring that all those who are in need of protection can effectively access it&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b832.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I shall become a naturalised Englishman as soon as is possible for my papers to go through.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b832.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A bundle of belongings isn&#8217;t the only thing a refugee brings to his new country.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b835.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We are all in the same boat and called to work together so that there will be no more walls that separate us, no longer others, but only a single &#8216;we&#8217;, encompassing all of humanity&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b841.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;shall enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms without discrimination,&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b843.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I spent my childhood hiding from rockets in refugee camps in Afghanistan. Fleeing the civil war, I arrived in London, separated from my family, as a traumatised 15-year-old. I dreamed of becoming a doctor.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b843.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Under this Government&#8217;s proposed plans, I would not have been given the chance to become an NHS doctor, let alone learn English or studied medicine at Cambridge University. I would have been classed as an &#8216;illegal arrival&#8217;, denied access to the asylum system, prosecuted for breaking the law, and&#8230;removed from the country.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b848.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;all you could hear was people coughing&#8230;it was like an apocalypse&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b850.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Home Office response to the DeSouza case included taking the position that it did not have to comply with the GFA as it is not domestically enforceable; arguing a reduction of the scope of the birthright provisions to one of &#8216;national identity&#8217; in the abstract (overlooking the &#8216;accept as&#8217; duty)&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b852.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the introduction of differential treatment of refugees depending on how they came to the UK or made their claim cuts against the principles motivating the 1951 UN refugee convention.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b852.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the right to seek asylum is universal and does not depend on the mode of arrival; asylum-seekers are often forced to arrive unauthorised.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b852.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a cruel, unjust bill unfairly punishing people who&#8217;ve fled war, persecution and terror for the way they reach the UK.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b852.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Far from truly tackling the scourge of human exploitation, including by organised crime, the bill will further empower and enable abusers by rendering the women, men and children on whom they prey ever more vulnerable to that predation.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b852.0/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we will strengthen the safe and legal ways in which people can enter the UK&#8230;we want to ensure that refugees who enter through safe and legal routes can reunite with close family members.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b855.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Leaving vulnerable men, women and children waiting for years on end for news of their fate&#8230;is cruel and unjust. It is an incredibly inefficient, ineffective and unfair way to operate a refugee protection system.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b855.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will increase the fairness of our system.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-07-19">19 July</phrase> 2021; Vol. 699, c. 705.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b857.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;they have come to the United Kingdom directly from&#8230;where their life or freedom was threatened&#8230;and&#8230;they have presented themselves without delay to the authorities.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b865.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The law must afford adequate protection of human rights.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b865.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The State must comply with its obligations in international law&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b866.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this does break international law&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b866.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;in a very specific and limited way.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-09-08">8 September</phrase> 2020; Vol. 679, c. 509.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b868.5/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we are urging the Government to think again and listen to asylum seekers and refugees, organisations that support them and people in receiving communities working to provide welcome and friendship.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b868.5/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Creating arbitrary divisions based on people&#8217;s method of entry will have profound implications for those who need our support most&#8230; many families and individuals have no choice in the route that they take, and to penalise them on this basis dangerously undermines the principle of asylum.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b868.5/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to create a discriminatory two-tier asylum system&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b868.5/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the 1951 Refugee Convention and longstanding global cooperation on refugee issues.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b869.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;In summary, we take the view that the change in clause 29 appears to go against the intention of the New Plan for Immigration, and flies in the face of 25 years judicial scrutiny.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b869.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We are&#8230;concerned about&#8230;Ships&#8217; Masters who save asylum seekers from drowning as they are obliged to do by&#8230;Article 98 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b881.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;An asylum claim must be made&#8230;at a designated place&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b897.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is political will&#8212;rather than legislation&#8212;&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b900.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Between 2008 and 2013, more than 50,000 people travelled illegally to Australia on more than 820 individual maritime people smuggling ventures. During this period, more than 1200 people drowned in the attempt to reach Australia&#8230;Following the establishment of Operation Sovereign Borders on <phrase class="date" code="2021-09-18">18 September</phrase> 2013, it has been more than six years since the last successful maritime people smuggling venture to Australia, and more than six and a half years since the last known death at sea&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b911.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;judging them on how they arrived, not what they have left.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-07-19">19 July</phrase> 2021; Vol. 699, c. 757.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b915.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Late claims raised shortly before&#8230;removal have been endemic, many fanciful or entirely false&#8230;It is a matter of regret that a minority of lawyers have lent their professional&#8230;support to vexatious representations and abusive late legal challenges.&#8221;</p>