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The Borders Bill makes Britain ‘one of the most anti-refugee countries in the world’
Medicine San Frontiers hits out at the government's ‘unworkable, exorbitantly expensive and inhumane’ Bill
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel

THE Borders Bill will make Britain “one of the most anti-refugee countries in the world,” an international aid group has warned. 

Medicine San Frontiers (MSF) UK said it was shameful that Tory MPs had trampled on efforts by peers to remove some of the cruellest elements of the Nationality and Borders Bill in a debate on Tuesday night. 

Despite a number of Tory backbenchers speaking out against the proposals, the government proceeded to comfortably win a series of votes to reinsert clauses removed by the House of Lords. 

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