Immigration rights advocates and the mayors of the destination cities accused the Republican governors of political gamesmanship that amounted to human trafficking. Abbott countered by branding the mayors as hypocrites and claiming that their cities were simply experiencing the same disruption that the ...
Since the referendum, discourses around the control of borders have accelerated within government with the introduction of both the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the ‘stop the boats’ Illegal Migration Act 2023, where issues of modern slavery, human trafficking, and immigration have become ...