00:00The important thing to remember is what does the common travel area means? It
00:03means that citizens of the United Kingdom and Ireland also the Isle of Man
00:07and the Channel Islands are free to move to work to live to study and every
00:12single day in Northern Ireland people will move over the border to go to work
00:16and the other way round they'll take their children to school across the
00:19border they'll play sport they'll go shopping they will worship this is a
00:24fact of daily life there are what nearly three 300 crossing points between the
00:29Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland you cannot you absolutely cannot put
00:33immigration control on that border it's really important it underpins the Good
00:38Friday Agreement which has enabled Northern Ireland to make extraordinary
00:41progress in the last 28 years the best thing to do is effective intelligence
00:46led policing and enforcement that is what we're doing we're going to improve data
00:51sharing with the Irish authorities that was agreed by the Prime Minister and the
00:54Taoiseach earlier this year and we will see more operations to target those who
00:58have no right to be in the United Kingdom and in particular in Northern Ireland
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