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"... the Illegal Migration Bill earlier this year catalysed a series of policies that have stripped down the support available for victims of modern slavery..."

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/01/quitting-the-echr-would-create-a-fertile-environment-for-modern-slavery/

Woah. This just me realise that anti-immigration is a prohibition. Like anti-drug laws, they shift power over how things happen, from communities to gangsters. Of course, this doesn't reduce the amount of drug-trading/ migration that happens, but it does increases the harm that comes with it.