On Sunday we learned that a former bodyguard to the leader of Hamas was granted citizenship in Britain before allegedly ‘plotting’ a terrorist attack against Jews in Europe. This has shown just how dangerous our migration and borders policies are, and how unsafe they have made us. The country is full of people who wish us ill and more arrive every week. Even Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s independent reviewer of terror legislation, has described mass migration as a national security threat. Last week we also learned that some illegal crossings were not being intercepted, meaning illegal migrants might well be bringing weapons with them.

Opening these paths will doom us to an endless flow of people who should not be here and whose presence will be harmful to this country and its people.

Opening these paths will doom us to an endless flow of people who should not be here and whose presence will be harmful to this country and its people.

The Home Secretary’s response to this, we learned on Monday, is to announce an act of profound national self-harm. At Labour’s conference, she announced  a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls, and Palestinians. Note the weasel words here – presumably Palestinian men will be welcome. According to the Guardian’s reporting, those ‘who arrive via the scheme will have a far more generous route to permanent settlement’ in which they will be ‘granted indefinite leave to remain, which will give them a........

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