Yvette Cooper says the rules around illegal immigration and people-smuggling haven't been respected "for far too long". The home secretary, who hosted 40 foreign counterparts at the Border Security Summit in London, adds they have agreed "new law enforcement cooperation" and "intelligence sharing" to "go after these vile criminal gangs and tackle this terrible trade in human beings". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, this was an unprecedented international summit on going after the criminal gangs that
00:06are undermining our border security, that are putting lives at risk.
00:10And we have countries from Vietnam, Iraq, Nigeria, as well as our nearest neighbors
00:16across Europe, France, Germany, and countries like the U.S. and China all facing real challenges
00:23from criminal gangs that try to exploit our borders in order to make huge profits.
00:29But agreeing today new law enforcement, cooperation, intelligence sharing to go after these vile
00:35criminal gangs and to tackle this terrible trade in human beings.
00:39Well, we're substantially increasing returns and enforcement because, frankly, the rules
00:44need to be respected and enforced.
00:47They haven't been for far too long.
00:49And we're doing this alongside this much stronger action against organized immigration crime.
00:55These gangs have been able to take root over the last eight years without proper challenge
01:01in the operations they've been running through the channel, but also right across Europe
01:06and beyond.
01:07The unprecedented nature of today's summit.
01:10We've never done this before across the world, bringing together countries where people are
01:16traveling from, countries people are traveling through, and then destination countries from
01:21right across the world agreeing new action on law enforcement, on social media advertising,
01:27and new action to pursue and disrupt these dangerous gangs.