The government does not currently have control of Britain's borders, the home secretary will admit today.
Shabana
Mahmood is hosting counterparts from the Western Balkans and other
European allies in London, and will demand greater international
co-operation to tackle small boat crossings.
The summit is designed to ensure nations on the continent strike new deals to tackle illegal migration, following Britain's "one in, one out" agreement with France signed earlier this year.
Calling
for a "joined-up" response to the challenge, Ms Mahmood will say
"coming together as we are today [...] will make all of our borders and
our countries stronger".
In the meantime, however, the government has failed "to bring order to our borders".
"The
citizens of each of our countries have a very simple expectation of
us," Ms Mahmood will say. "The public rightly expect their government
will be able to determine who enters their country, and who must leave.
"Today,
in this country, and I know in many if not all of yours, that is not
the case. And the failure to bring order to our borders is eroding trust
not just in us as political leaders, but in the credibility of the
state itself."
The Western Balkans is a major transit
route for people smuggling across borders, the Home Office says, with
some 22,000 people transported last year.
Many of the
asylum seekers who cross the Channel had ended up in France via several
other European countries, journeying across the continent after leaving
their homes in parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Today's
summit of European ministers will include representatives from Albania,
Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Kosovo, Poland, Serbia, and others.
Ms
Mahmood will reject the approach of those she will say "turn inwards"
to deal with immigration, as both the Conservatives and Reform tout the
prospect of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
But Tory shadow home secretary Chris Philp dismissed the tone of Ms Mahmood's comments, pointing to the record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel this year.
The
increase, and the use of hotels to accommodate them, drove
anti-immigration protests across the UK over the summer months. The
government wants to close all such hotels by the next general election.
In
addition to trying to tackle people smuggling, ministers have also
announced policies to bring down legal immigration, with a requirement
to learn English to A-level standard outlined in parliament on Tuesday.
"If you come to this country, you must learn our language and play your part," Ms Mahmood said.
It's expected to come into force after 4 November.
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Saturday, 18 October 2025
We don't have control of our borders, admits home secretary
Sunday, 17 June 2018
"The Situation Is Critical": Austria Conducts Border Defense Drills For Expected Wave Of 80,000 Migrants
Zero Hedge
Just a few weeks after the opening of a new "Balkan route" of travel through Albania, Montegegro, Bosnia and Croatia, Austrian forces will conduct border-security exercises on June 25 in the border town of Spielfeld in preparation for a wave of 80,000 migrants expected to travel through the route to Western and Central Europe, reports Kronen Zeitung, Austria's most widely-circulated newspaper.
Taking part in the exercise will be between 600 and 1,000 members of the riot police, "Puma" border squad and Federal Army will participate in the exercise.
"The situation is critical," says General Fritz Lang, director of Austria's Federal Criminal Police Office, who says that 30 illegal border crossings are attempted every day.
According to Lang, the migrants are primarily young male loners, "many of whom are considered "terrorist fighters," which require strong border protection.
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Just a few weeks after the opening of a new "Balkan route" of travel through Albania, Montegegro, Bosnia and Croatia, Austrian forces will conduct border-security exercises on June 25 in the border town of Spielfeld in preparation for a wave of 80,000 migrants expected to travel through the route to Western and Central Europe, reports Kronen Zeitung, Austria's most widely-circulated newspaper.
Taking part in the exercise will be between 600 and 1,000 members of the riot police, "Puma" border squad and Federal Army will participate in the exercise.
"The situation is critical," says General Fritz Lang, director of Austria's Federal Criminal Police Office, who says that 30 illegal border crossings are attempted every day.
According to Lang, the migrants are primarily young male loners, "many of whom are considered "terrorist fighters," which require strong border protection.
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Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Milosevic Exonerated, as the NATO War Machine Moves on
Neil Clark RT
The ICTY’s exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for alleged war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should take NATO claims regarding its ’official enemies’ not with a pinch of salt, but a huge lorry load.
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The ICTY’s exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for alleged war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should take NATO claims regarding its ’official enemies’ not with a pinch of salt, but a huge lorry load.
For the past twenty odd years, neocon commentators and ‘liberal interventionist’ pundits have been telling us at every possible opportunity, that Milosevic (a democratically elected leader in a country where over 20 political parties freely operated) was an evil genocidal dictator who was to blame for ALL the deaths in the Balkans in the 1990s. Repeat after me in a robotic voice (while making robotic arm movements): ‘Milosevic’s genocidal aggression’ ‘Milosevic’s genocidal aggression’.
But the official narrative, just like the one that told us that in 2003, Iraq had WMDs which could be launched within 45 minutes, was a deceitful one, designed to justify a regime change-op which the Western elites had long desired.
The ICTY’s conclusion, that one of the most demonized figures of the modern era was innocent of the most heinous crimes he was accused of, really should have made headlines across the world. But it hasn‘t. Even the ICTY buried it, deep in its 2,590 page verdict in the trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who was convicted in March of genocide (at Srebrenica), war crimes and crimes against humanity.
There was no official announcement or press conference regarding Milosevic‘s exoneration. We’ve got journalist and researcher Andy Wilcoxson to thank for flagging it up for us.
How very different it all was when the trial of the so-called ‘Butcher of the Balkans’, began in February 2002! Then, you‘d have to have been locked in a wardrobe not to be aware of what was going on.
CNN provided blanket coverage of what was described as “the most important trial since Nuremberg.” Of course, Milosevic’s guilt was taken as a given. “When the sentence comes and he disappears into that cell, no one is going to hear from him again,” declared US lawyer Judith Armatta from the Coalition for International Justice, an organization which had the former US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmerman, as an advisory board member.
Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a “Milosevic apologist”, or worse still, a “genocide denier”, by ‘Imperial Truth Enforcers’.
But amid all the blather and the hype surrounding the ’trial of the century’ it soon became apparent the prosecution was in deep, deep trouble. The Sunday Times quoted a legal expert who claimed that “Eighty percent of the prosecution’s opening statements would have been dismissed by a British court as hearsay.” That, I believe, was a generous assessment.
But the official narrative, just like the one that told us that in 2003, Iraq had WMDs which could be launched within 45 minutes, was a deceitful one, designed to justify a regime change-op which the Western elites had long desired.
The ICTY’s conclusion, that one of the most demonized figures of the modern era was innocent of the most heinous crimes he was accused of, really should have made headlines across the world. But it hasn‘t. Even the ICTY buried it, deep in its 2,590 page verdict in the trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who was convicted in March of genocide (at Srebrenica), war crimes and crimes against humanity.
There was no official announcement or press conference regarding Milosevic‘s exoneration. We’ve got journalist and researcher Andy Wilcoxson to thank for flagging it up for us.
How very different it all was when the trial of the so-called ‘Butcher of the Balkans’, began in February 2002! Then, you‘d have to have been locked in a wardrobe not to be aware of what was going on.
CNN provided blanket coverage of what was described as “the most important trial since Nuremberg.” Of course, Milosevic’s guilt was taken as a given. “When the sentence comes and he disappears into that cell, no one is going to hear from him again,” declared US lawyer Judith Armatta from the Coalition for International Justice, an organization which had the former US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmerman, as an advisory board member.
Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a “Milosevic apologist”, or worse still, a “genocide denier”, by ‘Imperial Truth Enforcers’.
But amid all the blather and the hype surrounding the ’trial of the century’ it soon became apparent the prosecution was in deep, deep trouble. The Sunday Times quoted a legal expert who claimed that “Eighty percent of the prosecution’s opening statements would have been dismissed by a British court as hearsay.” That, I believe, was a generous assessment.
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