GB News host Eamonn Holmes has hit back at an immigration lawyer today as he argued we should allow more migrants into the UK.
This comes after the Government accused the EU of double standards after Ireland vowed to send asylum seekers to the UK despite France refusing to take Channel migrants back.
Figures showed the number of migrants that crossed the Channel in small boats during the first four months of the year was at its highest-ever level.
Speaking on GB News Immigration lawyer Ivon Sampson said: "We've got to uphold the law. You cannot as a government. Ask people to break the law. It's wrong.
Ivon Sampson claimed that the border force is not securing borders
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"The civil servants themselves are in a very difficult position because there was a policy of pushing back migrants and the civil servants, the Border Force said, we're not going to do that unless you give us immunity.
"And then this government really hasn't grasped this problem. The Border Force is not securing our borders.
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"Our borders are really determined that people coming across by the weather. If you have nice weather, we have loads of people. If you have a bad weather, we don't.
"It's not by the actions and policies and strategies of our border force. And it's an absolutely shameful state of affairs.
"We need to sack the head of the Border Force, sack the Immigration Minister, and get people in who can do the job, or even better, get rid of this government and get a new government that can get a handle on this."
Eamonn Holmes asked him: "I think you're missing the whole point. This country can't take all these people. We've got all sorts of do-gooders, like you, who are saying that this is rightly awful.
Huge numbers of migrants are still coming to Britain via small boats PA"Where these people come from it is awful what they're going through, but it's awful what's happening in this country as well. And if you've got up to a million people a year coming illegally into this country as we do.
"We simply do not have the infrastructure. We can't afford to look after them. We can't afford to look after the people who are already here.
"And people are saying, what about our own homeless? What about our people who haven't got space in the hospital or whatever?
"And surely you can see we're just not capable of accepting all these people?"
Eamonn Holmes slammed the lawyer
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The lawyer responded: "Well, let me correct those facts first of all for you.
"We don't have a million people coming here who are costing us money. Simply not true.
"Asylum seekers account for about 40 to 50,000 people a year, a lot less than Germany and France, for example, half of what they're taking. Can we afford 50,000 people? I think we can.
"The other 950,000 that you talk about, we can't afford, they pay into the system. Let me give you an example. They pay immigration health surcharge for medical treatment."
