RE: Sold29 Aug 2025 15:59
"But public perception would be that illegal immigration had ceased"
Thats an assumption, whereas I think the public are well aware of other routes and scenarios. People stowaway in lorries, on the spare wheels of caravans, even in airplane wheel wells. They overstay visas. The public know this. But they would be please that small boat arrivals had ceased, pleased that the necessity for rescuing boats had stopped. Pleased that less money was being made out of journeys. I don't know the law well enough to argue, but I do know that testimony from people who have arrived is they are told they are illegal and that France was a safe country to claim asylum during their stay in clearance centres. The so called legality is purely an unintended Brexit consequence, as you say the Dublin Regulation no longer applies.
Having some spoken English, or having relatives or friends already living here - yes of course they are pull factors, it would be the same for you and I. But that does not mean people who claiming destitution and fleeing persecution should pick and choose their country of choice. Why can those groups, who appear to me to be more economic migrants, not apply for visas instead of arriving on a beach? You can hardly blame people for their resentment, we are still culturally scarred by the threat of invasion from WWII. In my view small boat crossings are not ok and they need to be stopped. UK needs to accept a share of refugees but not be subjected to daily landings of those who have the money and the bravery to chance the crossing. It's hardly a needs based assessment is it? Thats what UK citizens are met with when they claim welfare here.
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