UK Home Secretary Theresa May echoes John Howard in controversial anti-immigration speech

By Nick Miller
Updated October 7 2015 - 6:08am, first published 5:49am
Scenes from a crisis: Men overwhelmed with emotion collapse onto the shore praying moments after arriving on the Greek island of Lesvos by rubber dinghy with approximately 45 refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan  after a three hour journey from Turkey. Lesvos, Greece last month. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Scenes from a crisis: Men overwhelmed with emotion collapse onto the shore praying moments after arriving on the Greek island of Lesvos by rubber dinghy with approximately 45 refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan after a three hour journey from Turkey. Lesvos, Greece last month. Photo: Kate Geraghty

London: A senior United Kingdom government minister has echoed John Howard in a controversial, hard-line speech on migrants and refugees, in which she declared "we must have an immigration system that allows us to control who comes to our country".

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