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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
I'm Celia Hatton, coming to you live from London.
We're going to start this program looking at an issue that's so contentious it's toppled governments and it's led to angry protests in countries on every continent.
So the challenge is posed by migration.
And this time we're going to look at how this is being handled here in the UK.
The UK's Interior Minister, the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood,
is set to introduce new plans to overhaul the country's asylum rules,
inspired by Denmark's policy considered to be one of the toughest in Europe.
She told the BBC's Laura Kunsberg of the government's plans to quadruple the time refugees must wait for permanent settlement to 20 years.
I really reject this idea that dealing with this problem is somehow engaging in far-right talking points.
I am the child of migrants myself.
My parents came to this country lawfully in the late 60s and in the 70s.
Immigration is absolutely woven into my experience as a Brit and also that of thousands of my constituents.
This is a moral mission for me because I can see illegal migration is tearing our country apart.
It is dividing communities.
People can see huge pressure in their communities and they can also see a system that is broken and where people are able to flout the rules,
abuse the system and get away with it.
It is a moral mission for me to put that right