Migration Bill Passes Commons Vote as Protesters Gather in Parliament Square
The House of Commons voted 312 to 250 in favor of the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill at second reading stage on March 13, as protesters against the legislation gathered in London’s Parliament Square
The bill, which has been championed by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, would allow the UK to deport “persons who have entered or arrived in breach of immigration control.”
The UNHCR has criticized the legislation, saying it would “amount to an asylum ban”.
Footage by Twitter user Tamlyn Monson shows Green Party MP Caroline Lucas speaking to the crowd in Parliament Square. Credit: Tamlyn Monson via Storyful
Video transcript
CAROLINE LUCAS: And let us remember too that behind those numbers and statistics are real people, people with families and lives and hopes and dreams. In the words of the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire, no one puts their child in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. Unless home is the mouth of a shark or the barrel of a gun.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
And let us remember too that behind those numbers and statistics are real people, people with families and lives and hopes and dreams. In the words of the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire, no one puts their child in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. Unless home is the mouth of a shark or the barrel of a gun.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
