The home secretary says "new and serious patterns" have emerged in illegal migration, causing "major challenges" for national security. Yvette Cooper adds that smuggling gangs are using drones "to spot where the border patrols are". But she adds that it is "governments, not gangs" that should decide who enters the country. Cooper was speaking to foreign delegates at the Border Security Summit in London. 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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00:00To have so many people come from across the world shows the seriousness with which all
00:07our countries are taking these issues but also bluntly how much more together we need to do.
00:15But in recent years we have seen new and serious patterns and scales of irregular
00:22and illegal migration causing major challenges for border security, for national security,
00:29for the rule of law, for countries and the economy across so many of our countries in source,
00:36in transit and in destination countries alike. The criminal smuggler and trafficking gangs
00:43who profit from undermining our border security, our national security and the rule of law
00:49and from putting lives at risk have grown and stretched across the globe.
00:56300 people crossed the channel on flimsy dangerous small boats six, seven years ago
01:04but four years later that rose to over 30,000. An increase, a hundred-fold increase powered
01:13by smuggler and trafficking gangs. The gangs who advertise on social media false promise of
01:20illegal jobs, gangs who organize the logistics, the fake papers, the illegal finance networks to
01:26take everyone's money have thousands of pounds. The gangs are using new technology not just the
01:33phones, the social media to organize but even the drones to spot where the border patrols are,
01:39the operations along the land borders across continents. But it is governments and not gangs
01:47who should be deciding who enters our country.