00:00Illegal migration is a massive driver of global insecurity. It undermines our
00:07ability to control who comes here and that makes people angry. It makes me
00:14angry, frankly, because it's unfair on ordinary working people who pay the
00:20price, from the cost of hotels to our public services struggling under the
00:25strain. And it's unfair on the illegal migrants themselves, because these are
00:32vulnerable people being ruthlessly exploited by vile gangs. And I'm really
00:38delighted to be joined by all of you here today. We've got representatives
00:44from more than 40 countries across the world. There's never been a bigger
00:49gathering of people on this issue, building a truly international effort to
00:55defeat organized immigration crime. We inherited this total fragmentation
01:03between our policing, our border force and our intelligence agencies. A
01:09fragmentation that made it crystal clear, when when I looked at it, that there were
01:15gaps in our defense, an open invitation at our borders for what the people
01:22smugglers to crack on. To be honest, it should have been fixed years ago, but
01:28we're doing it now with our new border security command. Well, since coming to
01:32office, I can announce today we've returned more than 24,000 people who
01:38have no right to be here. That would have taken the Rwanda scheme 80 years to
01:45achieve. That's how we've delivered the highest return rates for eight years and
01:51the four biggest return flights ever.
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