Despite her immigrant origins, the British Home Secretary announces her plans to reduce immigration and deport irregular arrivals

British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has expressed her aspirations to significantly reduce the number of immigrants to Britain, and a government source said that the minister will request new powers to prevent immigrants coming through the English Channel from applying for asylum.

Speaking at a meeting on the sidelines of the ruling Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham, Braverman said her "ultimate ambition" was to reduce net immigration to Britain to the tens of thousands.

The newspaper commented that this figure is similar to the goal set by David Cameron's government to reduce the numbers to below 100,000 immigrants, and it has not been able to reach it.

At the same time, Reuters news agency quoted a government source as saying that the Minister of the Interior will announce during the Conservative Party conference her intention to seek new legal powers to prevent migrants crossing the English Channel from northern France to reach Britain from applying for asylum.

The government is also seeking new powers to deport migrants who arrive in Britain irregularly, according to Reuters.

"It is true that we extend a hand of friendship to those in real need," said excerpts of the minister's speech, previously published by Reuters.

"There are parts of the system that aren't working," Braverman said. "We have to put an end to the abuse of rules and bring those numbers down that don't meet the needs of our economy."

More than 30,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats since the beginning of this year, more than the record set last year.

British officials say the toll could reach 60,000 by the end of the year.

Braverman had said earlier that Britain receives large numbers of unskilled immigrant workers.

She said in an interview with the newspaper "The Sun" published last Saturday that there are "a lot of unskilled workers immigrating to Britain and a very high number of students come to this country with a very large number of dependents."

It is noteworthy that Braverman - who took over the interior portfolio in the new Liz Terrace government - is of Indian origin, and was born in Britain to parents who immigrated from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s.