00:00if they're applying for work or if they're trying to find stable housing or if they're even for
00:13example trying to get housing for themselves in the long term this will impact how they achieve
00:19those things and and they will constantly need to prove their needs for protection to be able
00:25to have stable peaceful lives time and time again with the you know the rwanda policy with um bb stuck
00:46on barge with the most more recent one-on-one-out policy um time and time again we saw that these
00:52policies don't actually stop people from coming here because people have no idea what these policies
00:57are before coming here they're coming here because they have family members they're coming here because
01:02they have um historical ties because they are from commonwealth countries and they have language ties
01:08with the united kingdom
01:10and it risks re-traumatizing people who have escaped great danger
01:33um it also creates a two-tier society where some people will feel that they belong and others will
01:40will feel that they do not belong
01:42yeah so the announcements uh that the labour government have made today will definitely make
02:07people's lives worse in the uk they will make it far harder for people to establish themselves in
02:13their new communities and it will definitely harm social cohesion by making it very clear to these
02:18people that the government of the day does not welcome them here
02:21nobody gets into the water unless it is safer than what's on land if the government wants to stop
02:40people taking dangerous journeys then they need to create safe routes there are all sorts of ways they
02:44can do that whether it is introducing a refugee visa that can be applied for from overseas or expanding
02:51family reunion routes so that it is it is easier for refugees family members to safely secure visas
02:57and travel to the uk with those visas
03:12it will create a huge amount of additional work that we and other voluntary sector organizations
03:17just cannot cope with because we do not have sufficient resources
03:21by pointing out that we absolutely understand
03:26not the end of the matter
03:29because these people are in the first persecution in their country
03:37so
03:53we just have to ask you a question
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