Almost 5,000 Channel migrant crossings so far in 2024

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1. Just more christians nothing to be concerned about.

2. > We continue to work closely with French police who are facing increasing violence and disruption

   Groups of violent and disruptive individuals with no respect for the police. Just what we need more of here in the U.K.!

3. It used to be fewer during the colder months when the Channel is rougher.

4. We used to send them back.

   Brexit means Brexit, though, so…..

5. Not put off by the possibility of being sent to Rwanda then. Perhaps we need a different strategy.

6. That would be about 25 full Rwanda schemes. (5000/200)

7. Australia had this exact issue around 2010. Up to 20,000 a year illegally arriving by boat. Against huge international and domestic criticism they started putting them straight into detention centres on an island off the mainland and passed a law preventing any illegal arrival from ever getting asylum or citizenship.

   The boats practically stopped overnight and last year they had less than 100 illegal arrivals via boat.

8. I’m gonna get hate for this one:

   That’s 5000 to almost 70 million. That’s less than a hundreth of a per cent. You man need to cool it with the anti-immigrant rhetoric

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10. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I can’t help but get the feeling that this is all a red herring to distract the public, legal net migration last year was over a million, although illegal immigration poses additional threats because these people are undocumented, let’s face it mass immigration benefits the super rich and the super rich only, the tories and Labour have no intention of slowing it down, we should all be voting for Reform.

11. Tories want this chaos. Then they can say they are the only ones who can prevent it. Despite it never being an issue before they took power.

12. Didn’t realise this sub was so bloody right wing it’s disgusting