10. Debate: The Equality and Human Rights Commission's Wales Committee Annual Review 2017-2018

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:49 pm on 6 November 2018.

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Photo of Gareth Bennett Gareth Bennett UKIP 6:49, 6 November 2018

No, not today, thank you, Neil. 

Some commentators would claim that President Trump is indeed attempting to roll back human rights protections in the USA. But to me he is simply trying to protect the USA's southern border from illegal immigration. I'm not sure I would agree that trying to implement an immigration policy that has been constitutionally agreed by the federal Government and its democratically elected legislatures actually amounts to rolling back human rights. Well, actually, I'm sure it doesn't represent that, and I think that Trump's election demonstrates that a broad mass of the US population don't think that either—