Is it not also the case that the previous Government not only did nothing to encourage people to leave the country when they had overstayed, but instituted a series of amnesties that undermined the credibility of the whole system for overstaying people?
Immigration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
James Clappison
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 22 October 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Immigration Bill.
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