Unionist party urges British government to act to prevent Northern Ireland becoming ‘a magnet for asylum seekers’
Migrants are brought into Dover Port last week after being picked up in the English Channel. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesThe British government must act to prevent Northern Ireland becoming a magnet for asylum seekers, the interim leader of the Democratic Unionist Partyruled that much of the UK’s Illegal Migration Act could not apply in Northern Ireland due to rights protections that are guaranteed under the post-Brexit Windsor Framework.
Mr Robinson said his party had repeatedly warned the government that its immigrations laws were incompatible with post-Brexit arrangements contained in the Northern Ireland Protocol/Windsor Framework. “For Ministers to ignore what the courts have said would not be merely a case of sleepwalking into the creation of immigration border in the Irish Sea but rather embarking on such a path with eyes wide open.“As unionists, we are clear that our national parliament should have the ability to make decisions on immigration that are applicable on a national basis.
“Yet another humiliation and savaging of UK sovereignty as NI is again found to be an EU colony where the writ of Brussels, not London, runs,” said Mr Allister. “It’s time the DUP disavowed its sell out document and got on the side of demanding, not diminishing, British sovereignty.” – PAMotion on baptism of children of unmarried mothers defeated as Burke family interrupt Church of Ireland Synod
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