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Why can't we not send troops to coastal towns beaches in Kent to stop the 'invasion', and while we're at it, get the navy to patrol the channell and as soon as these boat people hit British waters we turn them around and escort them back!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't believe sending the navy to patrol the channel is going to help anything until the question is answered, what do we do with people in dinghies? They need processing somewhere, on dry land. The question needs properly thrashing out between Britain and France, and netier governemnt have any backbone.
Might be an idea if we had the numbers in the military. I suspect it is already under strain. Holidaymakers would then have to put up with armed folk patrolling their beaches though.
Maybe best just to intercept the boats and take them back before the illegal economic immigrants get near our shore. The channel is under surveillance, should be easy to spot; and the lifeboat charity could play a part in taking them back in the interests of saving their lives. The attempted illegals can then apply properly from France, avoiding the return trip after the claim is processed.
//The attempted illegals can then apply properly from France,//
Others argue that the UK should provide (more) facilities outside the UK for asylum seekers to apply to come here. That begs the question that if a majority of qualified asylum seekers making their way into Europe really want to come to the UK would we be overwhelmed with "genuine" cases.
And how rigorous is the process in determining if an applicant is genuinely in need of asylum or just an economic migrant "chancer".
In every single one of the threads on this topic I have repeated one simple fact – these crossings will not stop voluntarily. “Smashing the gangs” will not work; threatening to deport the arrivals to Rwanda will not work; making life harsher after they have arrived will not work. Nothing which involves allowing them to land here will work because they know that once here, the likelihood of them being removed is extremely remote. Many do not make formal claims to remain; many more make those claims and when they are denied they simply disappear into the ether.
The only thing that will work is to physically prevent their landing.
“…what do we do with people in dinghies? They need processing somewhere, on dry land. “
See above. There is plenty of dry land in France.
“The attempted illegals can then apply properly from France,…”
Nobody in France needs to apply for asylum in the UK. The function of asylum is to provide temporary refuge for those whose lives are in danger. They are in no danger in France – they simply don’t like it there and would prefer to be here instead.
There have been over 1,000 arrivals in the first three weeks of the year, and this is mid-winter. There is simply nothing to deter these people from making the crossing. They need only make it half way, then they are picked up by either the RNLI or the Border Farce and brought ashore.
We having seemingly endless resources to rescue them so tteh argument that they cannot be prevented from landing because it is too difficult fails. Instead of rescuing them they should be turned round to return to France. Once this begins to be done, the numbers will drop off because the migrants will not pay three or four grand to take a trip round the bay and be returned to Calais.
Until somebody in government actually understands this, the boat crossings will continue. But there is no hope of that. The arrivals are now seen as routine and any efforts made to deal with the problem simply determine what to do with them after they have arrived.
"Surely it's best to attack the distributors and dealers..."
My analogy was to illustrate that attacking he "wholesale" siade of the drug problem has borne no significant fruit. This country is awash with illegal drugs to such a degree that the police have largely abandoned enforcing the law against personal posession.
Enforcing illegal entry to the UK is by comparison far easier. There are a limited number of entry points which can be readily policed and the place where most are arriving at present - via the Straits of Dover - is very small. There are a small number of boats daily and they can be - and are - easily intercepted. However....
"Deploying the military in the current climate would serve only to escort the incomers safely ashore."
And there's the rub. There is simply no political will to do it because the government is afraid it might look bad.
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