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Government using migration to ‘distract from its attacks on ordinary people,’ campaigners warn
Home Secretary Suella Braverman listens to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a press conference in Downing Street, London, after the government unveiled plans for new laws to curb Channel crossings as part of the Illegal Migration Bill.

TORY calls to cut net migration to Britain are part of the government’s “hateful and divisive agenda designed to distract from its attacks on ordinary people,” campaigners warned today.

Downing Street should instead focus on tackling the cost-of-living crisis to avoid “families relying on foodbanks and the elderly having to choose between heating and eating,” the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) told the Morning Star.

The intervention followed calls from Home Secretary Suella Braverman — already under-fire for pledging to send asylum-seekers in small boats to Rwanda — for less migration as “you cannot have immigration without integration.”

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