GB News halts for breaking illegal migrant crisis announcement

GB News explained that illegal workers had been exposed.

GB News halted for a breaking news update (Image: GB News)

GB News addressed the top industries that have employed illegal workers as guests debated over the responsibility of the hiring. Host Bev Turner welcomed Richard Goodstein and Matt Terrill to discuss the breaking news update that takeaways, delivery drivers and nail salons were the most prolific industries in Britain to hire illegal workers. Richard Goodstein joined the show to say the onus should be put on employers to electronically verify if somebody is in the country illegally.

He said: “This isn’t something that has been embraced, if it were you wouldn’t have this. You’d probably have more inflation, a lot of people doing these jobs – you’d probably have to bring people in who wouldn’t settle for these wages, it’s a mixed back. But if you want to crack down on immigration, and I think we should, putting the onus on employers is the bare minimum.”

Richard Goodstein said putting the onus on employers is the “bare minimum” (Image: GB News)

However, host Bev Turner admitted she’s not sure on that concept, sharing her concerns that it would be the small businesses that would be affected. She said: “My concern is that our government would never go after the massive corperations, it won’t affect them. But they will close down the small businesses, and actually they shouldn’t be employing people illegally, but make it easier to employ people legally!”

Guest Matt Terrill also joined in to say that businesses shouldn’t be employing people illegally, however he noted that the government should be taking more action to ensure that it’s not happening, comparing the UK to the US and praising Donald Trump for deporting people who are in the US illegally. He raged: “We need to get serious about illegal immigration, there needs to be policies in place to remove people who are in the country illegally.”

Terrill continued: “If you want there to be a process for people to get citizenship legally like in the United States, people follow that process and we honour that process. It comes down to leadership and right now we have people like Donald Trump who are enforcing the laws. It comes down to leadership as well.”

Illegal immigration has been a focus point in the UK over the last few years due to increasing numbers, with Keir Starmer’s latest attempt being the one-in-one-out scheme, which has received an abundance of criticism.