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Nationality and Borders Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Cashman (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 2 March 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills on Nationality and Borders Bill.

My Lords, I will speak rather briefly; it seems to me that brevity has a very wide definition. Let me just say that outsourcing is entirely

unacceptable. I would like to see the back of this clause and schedule; they should not be in a Bill dealing with asylum or refugees. As I said in Committee, this will place vulnerable people again at risk. I give the simple example of someone who might be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender ending up in a country to which they are outsourced where they could be criminalised, persecuted and under real threat. What kind of signal do we send to the rest of the world when we treat vulnerable people in this way? I support all the amendments in this group. I think that is brief enough.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
819 c841 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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