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The Sun
04-07-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Starmer's decision to axe Rwanda migrant scheme has backfired spectacularly leaving us no proper deterrent
Small boasts THERE was much excitement in Whitehall yesterday that French border cops had managed to enter the water and puncture a single rubber dinghy. Number Ten went so far as to call it a 'significant moment' — entirely overlooking the fact that at least six more boatloads of illegal immigrants WERE allowed to set sail for Dover. 1 In truth, ministers are desperate to cling to any sign of getting value for the £480million gifted to France. During Labour's first year in office, a staggering 40,000 crossed the Channel. Meanwhile, a Government promise to cut the number of asylum claims — the highest since records began in 1979 — has stalled with 107,000 waiting to be processed or appealing. Around 32,000 are in hotels — and plenty of them will be working illegally as delivery drivers. Given the Home Office has managed to deport just 6,000 so far, most will end up staying and many will eventually get free housing. The truth is that Sir Keir Starmer's decision to scrap the Rwanda scheme 12 months ago has backfired spectacularly — leaving us with no proper deterrent. Windy Mili ECO clown Ed Miliband now wants Brits to put windmills in their back gardens to help him meet his impossible green targets. The Energy Secretary also wants to build thousands of 850ft-high wind turbines across the countryside. Miliband clearly doesn't care that that the vast majority of Brits live in tightly packed terraced houses or flats. Keir Starmer's deranged drive for Net Zero with eco-zealot Ed Miliband is a threat to UK's national security- here's why Or that tens of thousands of whirling blades will be a massive blight on the beauty of our communities. Only one thing matters to His Greenness: his legacy as a Net Zero hero. Meanwhile the rest of us are left whistling in the wind. Carp-onystas IT'S a tale of hard-left splitters so bizarre even Monty Python couldn't make up. Zarah Sultana proudly announced she had quit Labour to set up a new party with Jeremy Corbyn. Except someone to forget to tell the Magic Grandpa, who promptly threw his toys out of the left side of the pram. The new group's name has not yet been revealed. But it's likely to be a toss-up between the People's Front of Sultana and the Sultanan People's Front. It might even end up being the Sultana Popular Front.
National Post
03-06-2025
- Business
- National Post
Liberal government tables border security bill with sweeping new data collection powers
OTTAWA — The Liberal government tabled a significant border security bill on Tuesday that includes sweeping new powers to intercept or search communications including mail, a tightening of the asylum claim process and increased intelligence collection and sharing across the federal government. Article content Article content The 139-page Bill C-2, tabled Tuesday morning, proposes vast changes to Canadian border security, data collection and sharing by federal authorities, anti-money laundering rules, the asylum claim system and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). Article content Article content The government said the bill had three main themes: securing the border, fighting organized crime and fentanyl and boosting the fight against financial crimes. Article content Article content Throughout all those themes are improved powers for law enforcement and intelligence services like CSIS to access information, including some without a warrant approved by a court, or even search Canadians' mail as part of a criminal investigation. Article content It would also increase the Canada Border Services Agency's (CBSA) ability to search containers exiting the country by obligating transporters and warehouse operators to provide site access to border agents for export inspections. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree told reporters on Tuesday that the new data collection and sharing powers in the bill also come with the necessary safeguards. Article content 'In order for me to bring forward legislation, it needed to have the safeguards in place. It needed to be in line with the values of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and I fundamentally believe that that we have struck the balance that, while expanding powers in certain instances, does have the safeguards and the protections in place to protect individual freedoms or rights,' the minister said. Article content Article content With regards to border security, a frequent gripe against Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump, the bill proposes to tighten rules around asylum claims, allow the RCMP to share information about registered sex offenders with domestic international partners and gives the CCG a new protective security role. Article content For example, the bill would allow the government to deem inadmissible wide swaths of asylum claimants. Among them, asylum claim received over 365 days after an applicant arrived in Canada (retroactively to June 24, 2020). Article content That measure, if passed, would likely impact tens of thousands of asylum claims received from international students after the Liberals drastically cut down on foreign study permits last year. Article content The bill would also close a loophole in the Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S. by blocking asylum claims made 14 days after an applicant crossed into Canada from the U.S. clandestinely by land.
