to fly or at a real risk of serious irreversible harm and exceedingly high harm in the country were removing to, will be able to delay their removal. any other claims will be heard remotely after removal. when our modern slavery act passed, the impact assessment envisaged 300 3500 referrals. last year. modern slavery laws are being abused to block removals. that s why we granted more than 50% of asylum requests from citizens of a safe european country and nato ally, albania. that s why this bill disqualifies illegal entrants from using modern slavery rules to prevent removal. mr speaker, i won t
it puts a duty on the home secretary to remove illegal entrants and will radically narrow the number of challenges and appeals that can suspend removal only those under 18 medically unfit to fly, or at a real risk of serious and irreversible harm, an exceedingly high bar, in the country we are removing them to will be able to delay their removal. any other claims will be heard remotely after removal. and when our modern slavery act passed, the impact assessment envisaged 3500 referrals a year. last year, 17,000 referrals took on average 543 days to consider. modern slavery laws are being abused to block removals. that s why we granted more than 50% of asylum requests from citizens of a safe european country
can suspend removal. only those under 18, can suspend removal. only those under18, medically can suspend removal. only those under 18, medically unfit to fly all at a real risk of serious and irreversible harm and exceedingly high bar in the country we are removing them too will be able to delay their removal. any other claims will be heard remotely after removal. when our modern slavery act passed, the impact assessment envisaged 3500 referrals a year. last year, 17,000 referrals took on average 543 days to consider. modern slavery laws are being abused to block removals. that s why we granted more than 50% of asylum requests from citizens of a safe european country and a nato ally, albania. that s why this bill that qualifies illegal entrants from
for house republicans in terms of them saying we re in the vanguard and we re going to force the president to respond. i would hope that he comes back with some plan to help with comprehensive reform for dreamers, for people who are already in the country. for asylum requests. mike: okay. gillian, your thoughts? gillian: it might be good politics for the speaker to go to the southern border. it s also really good policy, i would argue. in scenarios like this where you have sectors of the country where americans are struggling every single day with the border crisis completely out of view of the rest of the nation. the best thing can you really do is to highlight what these people are going through. mike: vince, your thoughts? conv i think the biden administration needs to be shamed into taking problems seriously. we have seen it happen routinely. the border is an example. what is happening in eastern ohio it wasn t until the media made a lot of noise about this that they began e
to arrive the herule is set to expire this week. title 42 was put into place under the trump administration and the ball was to stop the spread of covid-19 in border facilities and to protect border agents from the virus. more than 2 million migrants have been turned away under title 42. most of them at the southern border. after it expires the u.s. will have to process all asylum requests and it s not just people trying to get into the country who are having issues. people working in silicon valley are worried they will have to leave the country because the state department is also facing a backlog of visa applications. john ramis was at a rally in san jose today were tech workers were demanding action from the congresswoman. reporter: the fight over