During Thursday’s instalment of GB News, US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, warned of the community impact of migration to the show’s political editor, Christopher Hope. She warned him that if migration is not controlled, the British foundational freedoms are “not long for this world”.
She claimed: “Nobody is safe in a country if anyone can just walk in. And I would also add what every Brit and every American these days, unfortunately, intuitively knows, which is that when you change the people who live in the country, values change too. The politics change to and the institutions change too.”
The editor asked her, “So that’s what you are worried about? That cohesion level?”
She nodded before adding: “Yes, we have to care who is coming into the country and we have to care about who constitutes the country because otherwise the foundational freedoms that we all staked out hundreds of years ago are not going to be long for this world.”
Rogers also warned that free speech is “in danger” and claimed new technologies should be used to innovate online safety, rather than trying to censor everything.
She said the US and the UK “share great foundational freedoms” which help to share the post-war order “to our benefit”.
“Those freedoms are in danger now because of a temptation to censor the internet, and I am here to speak against that,” Rogers expanded.
“I am here to speak against that and to urge Brits, who I know share America’s fundamental desire to be a free society, to join us on that and welcome new technology in a way that sees through the current problems we are seeing.”
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