Tory MPs defend immigration bill

Tory MPs in Britain have slammed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after he said a British immigration bill amounted to “ethnic profiling.”

Conservative MPs called on the British government to go ahead with its plans to push forward the bill and protect the country’s borders. They said that Britain alone should manage its affairs.

Clacton MP Douglas Carswell said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres’ “foolish” remarks should be “immediately filed in the waste-paper basket.”

“I answer to my constituents, not to some unelected international bureaucrat,” Carswell said.

“There is absolutely nothing inappropriate about a sovereign country deciding who should be allowed to come and live within its borders and be entitled to benefits and who should not.”

Bob Neill, the vice-chairman of the Conservative party and MP for Bromley and Chislehurst, also said that his country would not tolerate “lectures” about how to manage borders.

Amber Valley MP Nigel Mills called the commissioner’s remarks “hysterical” and “over-the-top.”

The reactions come after Guterres said the bill, currently going through parliament, could “stigmatize” refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and even go as far as denying housing to stateless people.

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced earlier this month that the law should be brought in by January 2014, amid concerns over an influx of Romanians and Bulgarians to the UK in the near future.

Under the new measure, British people will be fined if they rent homes to illegal immigrants and banks will be barred from opening accounts for those people without the right to stay in the UK.

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