Suella Braverman's statement on small boats and the Illegal Migration Bill - a takedown:
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@JCWI_UK @refugeecouncil @FreefromTorture @ZoeJardiniere @migrants_rights @ILPAimmigration
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090681596936192
"The United Kingdom must always support the world’s most vulnerable", Braverman says.
We take far fewer refugees than e.g Germany & France. How can she say we're "giving sanctuary" to Afghans, when latest info shows literally zero Afghans have come to the UK via pathway 3?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090684042330113
"The vast majority were adult males under the age of 40, rich enough to pay criminal gangs thousands of pounds for passage."
Guess what - men can be refugees too. In fact, as @ZoeJardiniere explains, men are often those targeted in the first place.
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RT @ZoeJardiniere: Looks like we need this one again today...
Yes, you can be a young man and a refugee.🙄
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090686739181568
"By some counts there are 100 million people around the world who could qualify for protection under our current laws."
Blatant fearmongering that our system allows 100 million people to come to the UK. She knows that is a gross misrepresentation.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090689503309824
“They are coming here”.
We know what she’s implying here. Baseless and divisive ‘them and us’ rhetoric - it's disgusting.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090691440967682
"When our Modern Slavery Act passed, the impact assessment envisaged 3,500 referrals a year. Last year, 17,000 referrals took on average 543 days to consider."
This falsely implies all modern slavery referrals are migrants – simply not the case. Thousands are in fact British.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090695291437059
"I won’t address the Bill’s full legal complexities today. The nation’s finest legal minds have been – involved in its development."
Why not? Let's be clear - it's because the ‘finest legal minds in the country’ simply can’t give you a public justification for this shameful Bill
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090697275293705
"Our approach is robust and novel"
Nothing novel here - there have been 43 failed attempts to stop the small boats, and this plan will be no different. And there's nothing 'robust’ about contravening the ECHR.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090699204734976
"We can't make a definitive statement of compatibility under Section 19(1)(b) of the Human Rights Act."
Let me help you – it simply isn’t compatible.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090701062709253
"The Bill will introduce an annual cap on the number of refugees the UK will resettle via safe and legal routes."
She'll deport & detain people for not using safe routes, then in same breath admits those routes don’t exist yet & will only come after stripping rights back further
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090703155658752
Her final flourish – "The Government must act with compassion."
How dare she say 'compassion', when the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. This Bill is a nasty, divisive, and morally abhorrent attack on this country’s values.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090705101844480
@CarolineLucas the compassion of a psychopath
"This Bill enables detention of illegal arrivals, without bail or judicial review within first 28 days of detention."
Stops talking about people & starts talking about ‘illegal arrivals’. Utterly dehumanising, & somehow proud to announce detention without any due process.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1633090693345292290