More migrants crossing the Channel are from Vietnam than anywhere else
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/15/more-migrants-crossing-channel-vietnam-uk/
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More migrants crossing the Channel are from Vietnam than anywhere else
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/15/more-migrants-crossing-channel-vietnam-uk/
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More Channel migrants have come from Vietnam this year than any other country as the Government urged the Lords to drop its opposition to the Rwanda Bill.
The surge in Vietnamese migrants has been blamed by Downing Street for contributing to the record numbers crossing this year. Some 534 people reached the UK on Sunday, the highest in a single day this year. It brought the total this year to 6,265, up 28 per cent on the same point last year and seven per cent up on 2022.
On Monday, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman cited the “increasing number of Vietnamese” as one reason why the Safety of Rwanda Bill needed to be passed by Parliament to “save the lives of those being exploited by people-smuggling gangs”.
“It’s an unacceptable number of people who continue to cross the Channel and that demonstrates exactly why we must pass this Bill and get flights off the ground as soon as possible and provide the important deterrent that the Bill will provide,” he said.
MPs rejected the Lords’ changes to the Bill on Monday night and sent the legislation back to the Upper House, where Labour and crossbench peers will mount a fresh attempt on Tuesday to defeat the Government and send the legislation back to the Commons in a further round of parliamentary “ping pong”.
The number of Vietnamese crossing the Channel more than doubled last year from 505 in 2022 to 1,323. The rise has continued this year to make them the biggest cohort of Channel migrants, with Border Force reporting small boats packed with up to 20 Vietnamese migrants
Tougher security on lorries and the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a lorry trailer in Essex in 2019 has seen them divert away from road routes to small boats.
Vietnamese migrants tend to be trafficked by gangs into nail bars, cannabis farms, restaurants and the sex trade in the UK, which is why crime bosses have preferred lorries rather than small boats, where migrants are likely to be detained by Border Force.
Some have entered Europe via Serbia or Romania on work visas, only to find jobs badly paid with poor conditions.
Is anyone still pretending that the vast majority are anything other than economic migrants?
Why spend £15k-20k when that’s a good amount of money in places like Vietnam?? It’s not like Vietnam is in the shitter, it’s growing at a great rate
I feel that it’s France again that “assisted” the natives in their former colony!
But they’re fleeing war! Haha fucking joke, absolute mugs the lot of you who support the boat people
> In a tense appearance before the public accounts committee, he also admitted there had been “optimism bias” by officials when they estimated they could convert two RAF bases into asylum camps for £5 million apiece. The camp at RAF Wethersfield will cost £49 million, while RAF Scampton will be £27 million.
Just a *little* optimistic.
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As long as it ain’t islamic immigration it’s all good ✌️
Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC!
I feel my honest opinions would get firebombed with downvotes so I’ll just keep… nevermind I’ll never shut up.
This whole “small boat” situation is a giant moral panic. Just under 30,000 people migrated in small boats in 2023, or 82 people a day. They makes up less than 5% of total net migration numbers.
If you want to reduce net migration, sure. But let’s go after the bigger problem, the government gives out visas like candy.
>Vietnamese migrants tend to be trafficked by gangs into nail bars, cannabis farms, restaurants and the sex trade in the UK, which is why crime bosses have preferred lorries rather than small boats.
Sounds like they are more victims of exploitative gangs more than job thieves. They shouldn’t have trusted them, but they are primarily victims of exploitation and abuse and should be treated as such.
Plus legalising and regulating cannabis and the sex trade would help reduce how exploitative these industries currently are.
Jazus Christ com on most aren’t immigrants.get them out of here!
More stabbings, rapes and thefts. Nobody is doing anything about this.
Genuine question, why don’t these people fly into the UK and then claim asylum? Does the lack of documentation help their asylum claim? It would be about 100 times cheaper and safer.
Knowing the source, it’s probably on one boat they’re talking about.
Maybe we should tell them the Vietnam war ended 50 years ago and it’s safe to go back now…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vietnamese-vietnam-home-office-afghanistan-turkish-b2518142.html
Vietnamese made up 5% last year (eight place).
They’re doing this because they want to escape poverty and work for a better future. I’m a second gen Vietnamese who was born in the UK so I can provide some context on this.
Going back to the aftermath of the Vietnam war, many refugees fled Vietnam via boats to escape persecution. These ‘boat people’ fled from both the north and the south of the country into countries like Malaysia, Philippines and Hong Kong. It’s worth noting that at the time, Hong Kong was a British colony and the UK decided to accept some of these refugees which created the first big Vietnamese community in the UK.
The type of people who fled the communists were typically those who were more industrialist as they were those who were wealthier and therefore was persecuted.
Anyways, these people eventually thrived in places like the US and UK. And these people sent remittances back to Vietnam for their relatives. These remittances helped people who had family in the north and the south and helped drive economic growth in those areas, but the people who lived in the centre of the country didn’t receive much of these benefits. Eventually these people saw this and decided to pool money together to help send people abroad to work and send remittances back. This is a recent trend. If you see the victims from the lorry incident, they’re all from the centre of the country.
It’s worth mentioning that these people are more than happy to work in jobs that are manual and are physically exhausting. Nails for example is a big industry that Vietnamese people work and it’s a hard job. You have to work with chemicals that are potentially carcinogenic, wear a mask for long extended periods of time (remember how people complained about wearing a mask for a few minutes?) and concentrate for long periods of time.
The UK, alongside many other countries has an issue where we have an over abundance of people who want to work white collar jobs, and lack of people who are willing to work blue collar jobs despite blue collar jobs paying really well in recent years. As a result, there’s a lot of manual work that needs people, and these migrants are happy to work those types of jobs.
Apart from the landmines, and the off-chance you actually get done for corruption, Vietnam seemed like a fairly safe place.
Plenty of Viets working in Korea and Japan these days – strange they would want to fork out that much just to cross the Channel.
Vietnam.
Seriously? How and why are they not getting instantly deported?
If you don’t have a border, you don’t have a country. I’d like to hear the most leftish shit-lib of reasons why these people shouldn’t be detained and put on the first flight back to Vietnam.
We will be reading about these Vietnamese flying home so they can get dental treatment and than coming back in a few years time.