//Anyway, we should soon be able to send illegal immigrants (word is 'illegal') back to where they came from.//
We're already able to do that. We simply choose not to. And while attitudes like this prevail:
"Bella Sankey, from Detention Action, added: "No amount of massaging the numbers masks (the home secretary's) refusal to take the sensible step of creating a safe and legal route to the UK from northern France, thereby preventing crossings and child deaths."
We never will.