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One Thousand Illegal Immigrants Crossed The Channel In One Day.
How can it be stopped?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.There is a sentence in the latest BBC report on English Channel migrant crossings that is just exquisite. Thursday saw 1,000 people arrive in Britain unauthorised — a new record — and the story on the Corporation’s website explains how UK Border Force boats, as well as lifeboats, ferried the arrivals to Dover. However, it added:
‘A Whitehall source accused France of losing control of the situation.’
It’s a line worthy of Swift. Britain is seeing record levels of illegal migration, the Home Office is running a maritime Uber service, and somehow it’s all the French’s fault. Some wonder why the Boris Johnson era hasn’t produced any great political satire but who could take the competition? This may be the first government that satirises itself.
The Spectator
‘A Whitehall source accused France of losing control of the situation.’
It’s a line worthy of Swift. Britain is seeing record levels of illegal migration, the Home Office is running a maritime Uber service, and somehow it’s all the French’s fault. Some wonder why the Boris Johnson era hasn’t produced any great political satire but who could take the competition? This may be the first government that satirises itself.
The Spectator
i wonder what britain will look like in 50yrs demographically, will the nhs collpase along with the benefits system, as i think it cannot be sustained with the inflow of immigrants, let alone civil unrest and massive ghettos and no go areas, doom monger perhaps, paranoid
mmm maybe end up like the american welfare and medical system or worse, your predicitons...
mmm maybe end up like the american welfare and medical system or worse, your predicitons...
How about an internment camp on one of the uninhabited Scottish islands?
We have to make it unwelcoming or they will just keep coming. I always understood that asylum seekers were to ask for asylum in the first friendly country they arrive at........not the most gullible.
Greece have already set up camps on one of their islands which will take up to 3000 and where the migrants can be housed, fed and looked after while waiting for their paperwork to be processed. It sounds like an humanitarian answer to me - as well as being off-putting to others willing to risk their lives at sea
We have to make it unwelcoming or they will just keep coming. I always understood that asylum seekers were to ask for asylum in the first friendly country they arrive at........not the most gullible.
Greece have already set up camps on one of their islands which will take up to 3000 and where the migrants can be housed, fed and looked after while waiting for their paperwork to be processed. It sounds like an humanitarian answer to me - as well as being off-putting to others willing to risk their lives at sea
The UK government has now deployed troops to defend the border and keep the illegal immigrants at bay. Not our border ... Poland's border. It is like some sort of grim parody. There is a deliberate policy of allowing our borders to be routinely breached, but we can send troops thousands of miles to protect someone elses.
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