MADRID, November 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has rebuked British Home Secretary Suella Braverman for “discriminating” Albanian migrants, citing them as the cause of Britain’s “migration policy failure”.

“Targeting Albanians as the cause of British crime and border issues is easy rhetoric but ignoring hard facts. Repeating the same thing and expecting different results is crazy,” Rama said on his Twitter profile.

The Albanian head of government thus responded to Braverman’s remarks, who earlier this week spoke of tightening immigration measures so that adult foreigners do not pose as unaccompanied minors, a strategy that, he said, is common among asylum seekers from Albania.

“This year has seen an increase in the number of Albanians arriving, many of them, I’m afraid to say, abusing our laws… We’re working to ensure that Albanian cases are processed and people expelled as quickly as possible,” Braverman said Monday. .

In response, Rama stressed that “British Albanians work hard and pay taxes”, urging London to review its fight against criminal gangs “from all countries” and “stop discriminating against Albanians”.

“Albania is a NATO country and is negotiating its entry into the EU. It is also a safe home country. When Germany had the same problem, it tightened its own system. The UK can and should do the same, not responding with criminal rhetoric that ends in punishing innocent people,” he said.

Finally, Rama has acknowledged that “Albania is not a rich country” and that he must tackle organized crime within its borders, which requires close cooperation with foreign countries. In doing so, he acknowledged his willingness to collaborate with London because “the facts matter”, though it is also “mutual respect”.

With this statement, Braverman has immersed himself completely in the new immigration controversy just a month after he assured in early October that his “dream” and “obsession” was to see how a plane deported those seeking asylum in Rwanda to Rwanda.