He maintained that “the number of people crossing the English Channel to enter Britain illegally is completely unacceptable”.

MADRID, December 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has defended in a report by a British think tank that promoting legislation to control illegal immigration is not “xenophobic” or “anti-immigration” behavior.

“British society is fair, tolerant and generous in spirit. But we are sick of our immigration laws and rules being violated to cheat our asylum system,” he said, adding that the situation “must stop.”

Braverman has acknowledged in the preface to a 115-page report published this Monday by the Center for Policy Studies ‘think tank’ that “the number of people crossing the English Channel to enter Britain illegally is completely unacceptable”, for what this situation is, which costs “millions of pounds a day for taxpayers (…) can’t go on”.

The British minister also stressed that recent migration agreements, such as the controversial plans criticized by human rights organizations to deport migrants to Rwanda or the cooperation agreement with France, were “insufficient measures”.

“The Prime Minister (Rishi Sunak) and I are committed to do whatever is necessary. We are finalizing our plans and we will provide the necessary operational and legislative regulations to address this issue fully,” he said.

Braverman said last October that his “dream” was “to have a cover of ‘The Telegraph’ with a plane taking off for Rwanda.” “That’s my dream, that’s my obsession,” he told a Conservative Party conference from Birmingham, where he supported stricter action against illegal immigration.

Her predecessor in office, Priti Patel, promoted a project to deport migrants who crossed irregularly into British territory into Rwanda while their asylum applications were being processed. However, a judicial appeal prevented the completion of the first flight scheduled for June.