.... He insisted these concerns should not be dismissed as racist and said migrants should learn the language of the country where they live while also fitting in with its culture and values.
Speaking during the second reading debate on the Government's controversial Immigration Bill, the backbencher said: "I think there is a wider public concern about illegal immigration. It's too often dismissed as narrow-minded racism when it's not, in my view.
"I think it is reasonable for people who live in established communities to get nervous when they suddenly find that English - or indeed in some parts of north Wales, Welsh - is no longer the language they're hearing day to day on the streets.
"In some of the larger cities people become nervous when they see cultural changes that they can't necessarily go along with - women wearing burkas or trailing six-feet behind their husbands, for example, or issues such as female genital mutilation or forced marriage. [Daily Express] Read more
