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US President Donald Trump suggested Sir Keir Starmer should take a tougher line on tackling the migrant crisis, possibly including military involvement.Setting out his own actions in the US, Mr Trump said: “What I saw happening, with millions of people pouring into our country, I couldn’t stand to watch it, and we’ve done a great job.”He said “the last three months we had zero – from millions of people a year ago, we had zero people enter our country illegally”.Speaking alongside Sir Keir, he said: “I think your situation is very similar. You have people coming in and I told the Prime Minister I would stop it, and it doesn’t matter if you call out the military, it doesn’t matter what means you use.“It destroys countries from within and we’re actually now removing a lot of the people that came into our country.”

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00:00From millions of people a year ago, we had zero people enter our country illegally.
00:05And we do have people coming in legally through a legal process and testing and lots of other
00:10things.
00:11I think it's very important, and we speak about it, and I think your situation is very
00:16similar.
00:17You have people coming in, and I told the Prime Minister I would stop it, and it doesn't
00:23matter if you call out the military, it doesn't matter what means you use, but it's going
00:28to destroy countries from within.
00:31And we're actually now removing a lot of the people that came into our country.
00:35It's a very hard chore.
00:37We were given a very, very bad hand.
00:41Millions of people came in from prisons and mental institutions.
00:44We have to remove them, and we are removing them.
00:47We have no choice, and I feel very strongly about it.
00:50This is obviously an issue we're taking incredibly seriously.
00:54We've struck a number of deals, both on cooperation with other countries, because this is a
00:58problem right across Europe, to tackle the problem of actually breaking up the gangs that
01:03are running this trade.
01:05We have had a record number of returns, over 35,000 now, since we came into office.
01:10That's the highest number for the best part of 10 years.
01:13We struck the returns arrangement with France, and notwithstanding the challenges to that scheme,
01:21which you've seen in the last few days, a flight went off at 6.15 this morning, successfully
01:27returning someone under that scheme.
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