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The new foreign minister vowed to prevent small boats from passing through the English Channel and seek to “make Rwanda’s plan work”.

Suella Braverman, in her first speech at work, received a standing ovation at the Conservative Party conference after promising to stop illegal border crossings by migrants.

“We have to stop the boats from crossing the strait. This has been going on for too long. But I have to be frank with you, there is no quick fix,” she said.

“The problem is chronic. Organized criminal gangs are selling a lie to thousands of people. Many are drowning in the Channel.

“Many people are leaving a safe country like France and abusing our asylum system.”

Ms Braverman, speaking at the Birmingham conference, said she would work closely with France “to gain more from our partnership” both on France’s coastline and “further upstream” against against criminal gangs who smuggle people through.

The announcement received a standing ovation from the audience and led her to say she wasn’t finished yet.

The interior minister added that to stop illegal migration “we need to find a way to make the Rwanda plan work”.

She was handled by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on behalf of the UK Supreme Court, so the government’s first deportation flight to Rwanda failed to take off.

Her predecessor, Priti Patel, kicked off a plan to bring migrants to the UK in small boats in the English Channel, to Rwanda in partnership with the African nation.

However, no flights have left the UK yet due to the ECHR decision, and Ms Braverman said: “We need to get back in control.”

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Modern Slavery

She also said the largest group of migrants in small boats is now coming from Albania, which she says is “a safe country”.

Ms Braverman said many of them claimed to have been trafficked as modern slaves “even though they paid thousands of pounds to come here, or were willing to make a perilous journey across the Channel”.

She said many people are not modern day slaves and their claims of being trafficked “are lies”.

Dover Tory MP Natalie Elphicke told Sky News she welcomed the measures, adding that British people would “absolutely help those in need of asylum” but the situation was being abused daily in the market. town.

Ms Braverman also said there are “serious examples of convicted pedophiles and rapists” making last-minute statements about modern slavery to prevent their deportation.

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Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protest against the Government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, during a High Court hearing on the policy happenning.  Date taken: Monday, September 5, 2022.
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Rwanda flights have yet to take off due to legal challenges

Not racist to want border control

In her wide-ranging speech, the home secretary said legal migration needed to be controlled so that migrants coming to the UK could mingle.

“There is no racism against anyone, ethnic or otherwise, who wants to control our borders,” said Ms. Braverman, whose parents were from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s. .

“It’s no exaggeration to say that we have too many asylum seekers abusing the system.

“It is not xenophobic to say that mass and rapid migration puts pressure on housing, public services and community relations.

“I reject the Left’s argument that it is hypocritical for an ethnic minority to say these facts.”

Police officers arrest one of the Extinction Rebellion activists who demonstrated at the Houses of Parliament in London, England on September 2, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
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Ms. Braverman targets Extinction Rebellion protesters

The police should not start

She also promised to assist the police and make sure they investigate every crime in the neighborhood.

Members applauded when she said officers should have the power to “stop protesters from using guerrilla tactics” and warned activists from environmental groups Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion that they would be jailed for breaking the law during the protests.

She also said it was wrong for the police to start kneeling, participating in political rallies and baron officers dropping searches of female suspects.

“More PCs, less PCs,” she said to loud applause.

The Secretary of State also pledged to ensure that the Introductory Terrorism Prevention Scheme was “fit for purpose”.

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