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naomi24 | 13:36 Thu 30th Jan 2025 | News
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//People smuggling gangs could be charged with a new criminal offence of endangering lives at sea, under plans announced by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

Border officials will also get powers to seize migrants' phones in the search for intelligence about who helped them to cross the English Channel.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2egme9vp34o

 

How is that going to work when the gangs are based abroad - and our own border force and lifeboats are helping illegals cross the Channel?  More bureaucracy floating on hot air?

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Oh dear, more desperate barrel-scraping from bitter Tories determined to revenge their overwhelming rejection.

At least this Government is making an effort, unlike the last Government which let illegal immigration reach record levels. 

"Ministers hope these powers will mean the police will be able to arrest and charge more gang members, or seek their extradition from abroad, before boats have left France." [Emphasis added]

That would allow gangs in France to be targeted. 

 

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An effort perhaps, Canary, but the question is, given what is actually happening, how is it going to work?  Any chance of you addressing that?

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Yes, I get that bit too, Corby, but we're already paying France to stop them and that doesn't seem to be working, so who's going to catch them?

turn the boats back and escort them to France, we don't want them here!

//That would allow gangs in France to be targeted. //

No it wouldnt, they have no jurisdiction over there and the French Police would be unlikley to go find them.

It's all hot air and posturing.  I'm all for doing something but lets put effort into something that will work.

From March 2023, "Mr Macron praised the joint efforts of UK and French teams working to reduce small boat crossings.

Speaking at a press conference with Mr Sunak at the Elysee Palace, he said the team had prevented 30,000 small boat crossings and made 500 arrests in the past year."

I don't know if the, "30,000" figure also relates to 2022 but either way, that is a fair few crossings that have been prevented.

Take their phones?

 

Where the *** do they think the phones will go?

//that is a fair few crossings that have been prevented.//

Except they simply hopped on the next one, so nothing prevented in reality.

The TINO's were just as complicit in doing nothing, although in their defence Labour tried to scupper anything they did.

Anything extra that might make a difference should be welcomed surely, rather than ripped to shreds before it has been tried.

 

Clone I guess they are hoping to get information from the phones about who they paid to help them get here.

//Anything extra that might make a difference should be welcomed surely, rather than ripped to shreds before it has been tried.//

OK then, tell me how this will work.  It very clearly wont so of course it is ripped to shreds.

There are things they could do that would help it but they dont really want to sort it I suspect.  After all every one let in is likley to become a labour voter.

There is already a post going on this. I will close now and remove in 10 minutes.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1888411.html

 

Undocumented 'migrants' working in car washes and kebab shops can't vote though.

Until they are documented, which is what labour are currently doing.

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Oh is this the topic of your thread, TTT?  I haven't looked at it but there something to be said for clear headings.

"After all every one let in is likley to become a labour voter."

That's very true, youngmaf. Meaning the Tories had a vested interest in taking proper measures to stop it. But they did sod all about it either.

If by Tories you mean the TINO's that got into Government - yes.

"If by Tories you mean the TINO's that got into Government..."

The very ones, youngmaf, the very ones.

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