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Brexit: "Eu Will Swamp Us With Immigrants Unless We Leave"
Brexit supporters said, "We will be swamped with immigrants unless we leave."
So why are the figures still rising, now at record levels ?
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So why are the figures still rising, now at record levels ?
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Brexit was 100% about Immigration .The Brexiteers didn't want the legal E/u migrants living next door to them , so they voted out,thinking that's the end of immigrants. But the Brexiteers shot themselves in the foot by getting rid of thousands of NHS nurses Hgv drivers etc, all tax payers and adding to the economy doing the jobs that the Brits didn't want to do. So they have now inherited a different kind of migrant the ones who won't be working and will be kept by the taxpayer and will drain the economy. Hence the empty supermarket shelves and a NHS under strain. You askedfor it.
//Would it not be possible to draft through emergency legislation making it a criminal offence to land on our shores without explicit permission?//
There’s no need. There’s already plenty of legislation that makes it an offence to arrive without authority. For example, the current Covid regulations. Here’s some guidance from the government:
“It is a criminal offence to provide false or deliberately misleading information when filling out your passenger locator form. You could be fined up to £10,000, imprisoned for up to 10 years, or both, if you do not provide accurate details about the countries you have visited in the 10 full days (11 nights) before you arrived in the UK.”
Do you reckon those arriving in rubber boats have completed their Passenger Locator Forms?
It is also a criminal offence (under the 1971 Immigration Act) to “…knowingly enter the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation order or without leave.” Those who turn up on the beaches in Kent do not have leave to enter. The UN Convention on the status of Refugees says:
“The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence.”
Those arriving from France are not coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened (nor for that matter are they refugees in the true sense of the word). So the UK can impose penalties. But for some reason it chooses not to and I have read that some courts have decided that the UN Convention does not apply in these circumstances.
Put simply the UK has no will to deal with this problem. If a UK passport holder mislays his passport whilst abroad he has to jump through hoops either at the UK Consulate where he is abroad, or here when he arrives. And quite right that is. But set out across the Channel with no papers whatsoever and you’re picked up for the last part of your journey and waved through on arrival. The government is quite content to see boatloads of people who have no right to be here, arrive literally in their hundreds. Every one of them will require somewhere to live. Every one of them will require funding to subsist and every one of them will require medical treatment as required. Any children arriving will require education. All of these resources are in short supply for those already living here.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit. It was happening long before Brexit was even thought of and will continue for so long as the government abrogates its responsibility to keep illegal entrants out.
There’s no need. There’s already plenty of legislation that makes it an offence to arrive without authority. For example, the current Covid regulations. Here’s some guidance from the government:
“It is a criminal offence to provide false or deliberately misleading information when filling out your passenger locator form. You could be fined up to £10,000, imprisoned for up to 10 years, or both, if you do not provide accurate details about the countries you have visited in the 10 full days (11 nights) before you arrived in the UK.”
Do you reckon those arriving in rubber boats have completed their Passenger Locator Forms?
It is also a criminal offence (under the 1971 Immigration Act) to “…knowingly enter the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation order or without leave.” Those who turn up on the beaches in Kent do not have leave to enter. The UN Convention on the status of Refugees says:
“The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence.”
Those arriving from France are not coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened (nor for that matter are they refugees in the true sense of the word). So the UK can impose penalties. But for some reason it chooses not to and I have read that some courts have decided that the UN Convention does not apply in these circumstances.
Put simply the UK has no will to deal with this problem. If a UK passport holder mislays his passport whilst abroad he has to jump through hoops either at the UK Consulate where he is abroad, or here when he arrives. And quite right that is. But set out across the Channel with no papers whatsoever and you’re picked up for the last part of your journey and waved through on arrival. The government is quite content to see boatloads of people who have no right to be here, arrive literally in their hundreds. Every one of them will require somewhere to live. Every one of them will require funding to subsist and every one of them will require medical treatment as required. Any children arriving will require education. All of these resources are in short supply for those already living here.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit. It was happening long before Brexit was even thought of and will continue for so long as the government abrogates its responsibility to keep illegal entrants out.
//...so erm what to do with them.//
Nothing much. The only way to deal with the matter is the way any invasion would be handled - you prevent the invaders from landing. However neither this current government nor any other is prepared to do that so we're stuck with it. They prattle on about "rules of the sea" and other associated inappropriate cobblers, but meantime the invasion continues, hundreds at a time. A read a couple of weeks ago that the police were buying up all the rubber boats they could to prevent them being used for illegals. That seemed to have worked well.
Nothing much. The only way to deal with the matter is the way any invasion would be handled - you prevent the invaders from landing. However neither this current government nor any other is prepared to do that so we're stuck with it. They prattle on about "rules of the sea" and other associated inappropriate cobblers, but meantime the invasion continues, hundreds at a time. A read a couple of weeks ago that the police were buying up all the rubber boats they could to prevent them being used for illegals. That seemed to have worked well.
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