Starmer Urges World to Treat People Smuggling Like Terrorism
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Keir Starmer during the first day of the Interpol general assembly, in Glasgow. on Nov. 4.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged international allies to treat people-smugglers like terrorists as he sought to adopt a hard line on irregular migration, a policy concern that’s caused a surge in right-wing support across Western countries.
“Illegal migration is without question a massive driver of global insecurity,” Starmer said in a speech on Monday as he opened the general assembly of the global policing body Interpol in Glasgow, Scotland. “Unless we bring all the powers we have to bear on this in much the same way as we do for terrorism, then we will struggle to bring these criminals to justice.”