00:00To have so many people come from across the world shows the seriousness with which all
00:07our countries are taking these issues but also bluntly how much more together we need to do.
00:15But in recent years we have seen new and serious patterns and scales of irregular
00:22and illegal migration causing major challenges for border security, for national security,
00:29for the rule of law, for countries and the economy across so many of our countries in source,
00:36in transit and in destination countries alike. The criminal smuggler and trafficking gangs
00:43who profit from undermining our border security, our national security and the rule of law
00:49and from putting lives at risk have grown and stretched across the globe.
00:56300 people crossed the channel on flimsy dangerous small boats six, seven years ago
01:04but four years later that rose to over 30,000. An increase, a hundred-fold increase powered
01:13by smuggler and trafficking gangs. The gangs who advertise on social media false promise of
01:20illegal jobs, gangs who organize the logistics, the fake papers, the illegal finance networks to
01:26take everyone's money have thousands of pounds. The gangs are using new technology not just the
01:33phones, the social media to organize but even the drones to spot where the border patrols are,
01:39the operations along the land borders across continents. But it is governments and not gangs
01:47who should be deciding who enters our country.
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