Will my hon. Friend help me by explaining to the House why imposing a limit on the number of people coming in from outside the EU is an arbitrary figure, whereas a figure fixed by the Government for the number of people in any one year who can have citizenship is not an arbitrary figure?
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Deben
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 2 June 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords].
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