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UK home secretary slammed for asylum seeker ‘invasion’ remarks

Braverman, a darling of the Conservative’s right-wing faction, is pushing to crack down on the number of migrants and refugees reaching the UK via the English Channel [File: Henry Nicholls/Reuters]

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under heavy criticism for describing the arrival of asylum seekers on the United Kingdom’s southern coast as an “invasion”, with lawmakers from across the political spectrum and non-governmental organisations denouncing her choice of language as “inflammatory” and “heinous”.

Braverman, who is fighting to save her job after she admitted breaching security rules, told Parliament on Monday that she was working to stop the “invasion on our southern coast” in reference to the arrival of migrants and refugees in small boats across the English Channel.

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