New bill will "restore order to the immigration and asylum systems"
The Home Secretary read the purpose of the bill in Parliament today
The Home Office says nearly 19-thousand migrants have been removed from the UK since Labour took office in July.
Figures suggest it's the highest rate of returns seen since 2018.
Earlier, it was revealed almost four-thousand people working illegally in nail bars, car washes and restaurants have been arrested in a border security crackdown.
Today MPs debated the purpose of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said it will "restore order to the immigration and asylum systems."
Opening the second reading of the Bill she told MPs: "The purpose of this Bill is to strengthen UK border security, which has been weakened and undermined in recent years, to restore order to the immigration and asylum systems that were left in chaos, and to bring in new counter-terror style, powers for our law enforcement to go after the dangerous criminal gangs who undermine our border security and profit from putting lives at risk and who have been getting away with it for far too long."
She added: "The (previous) government failed to ask to act fast with France and other countries to increase enforcement or to prevent the gangs taking hold, and instead, criminals were let off, and an entire criminal industry was established along our borders in just a few short years, with tragic consequences."