'Stop discriminating against Albanians', country's PM tells UK

'Stop discriminating against Albanians', country's PM tells UK

The UK has been told to stop blaming Albanians for the migrant crisis by the country’s prime minister.

Edi Rama said the British government needs to stop using Albanian immigrants to “excuse policy failures”.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has singled Albanians out several times over the past week as the numbers coming from the southern European country in small boats across the Channel has soared.

She said the majority arriving are adult single males.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said Albanians are “abusing” the Modern Slavery Act to delay deportation attempts.

Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet in Kent, said 12,000 Albanian migrants have arrived on small boats in the UK so far this year.

But Mr Rama has had enough and tweeted on Wednesday: “Targeting Albanians (as some shamefully did when fighting for Brexit) as the cause of Britain’s crime and border problems makes for easy rhetoric but ignores hard fact.

“Repeating the same things and…

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