Home Office says 748 migrants cross Channel in two days.

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1. Annualised that is like 120k a year.

   Park a fucking destroyer in the channel already

2. You see the thing is that if these people were returned then they wouldn’t congregate on northern french beaches and the criminals wouldn’t be ferrying them because there’s no money in it any more.

   The flip side is that there ought to be legitimate ways for people to claim British asylum without this crap.

   That way we can assess and grant when appropriate instead of a massive accommodation and housing bill that hurts British citizens while we deal with the backlog and a good chunk of those people vanish in the process.

   I have zero idea why they want to be here instead of Europe anyway.

3. I hope the government starts subsiding the small boats. We need more

4. Almost as if all this culture war nonsense like sending them to Rwanda isn’t a deterrent and instead the money would be better spent on setting up a safe route (thereby instantly undercutting the people traffickers) and efficiently processing their claims.

5. While spending months and millions of taxpayer money arguing about sending a max 300 people to Rwanda. Even after 14 years in power they’re turning up to an avalanche with a dustpan and brush.

6. Inb4 the “you’re clearly racist if you don’t agree with mass migration” gang arrives.

7. I’m sure the tories are somehow profiting from this. A bunch of their buddies probaby have companies that somehow processes/ houses/ feed refugees.

   They’re all a bunch of crooks wasting tax payer money.

8. More screaming at the sea from people who “took back control”…

9. You may argue why they should or should not come and who could or could not do more. It matters not.

   What is clear is that the sheer numbers speak for themselves. A city the size if Edinburgh or Cardiff every single year.

   This is totally unsustainable.

   Eventually the public will force this issue to the top of the political agenda and demand that whatever steps are needed must be taken.

   No more wasted years and excuses.

10. To the very left leaning people in here – genuine question:

    How many immigrants should come here before you think it’s too many?

    10? 100? 1000? 10,000? 100,000? All probably quite manageable I reckon.

    Now how about 1,000,000? Still okay? 5,000,000? Seems a little much to me but don’t want to be racist. Let’s take 25,000,000 and see what happens?

    What is your figure? When, in your opinion, does it stop being racist to object to immigration and when does it come down to ‘holy shit this is just way too many and it will destroy this country’? What’s the number?

    Edit: After 4 hours nobody has been able to answer ‘how many is too many?’

11. As someone who used to work in housing and benefit services at the local council, this is why most things are at breaking point, the sheer number of people. Even when it’s done the correct way! When I worked in housing people would legitimately come over from an EU country and walk straight into the council office to declare themselves homeless/over crowded/in medical need etc, it got worse year on year on year.

12. Surely the border is in Dover not Calais.The French are not going to stop migrants leaving their country for ours.

13. Gov doing anything except investing in processing these applications quicker so they can fuck off or stay rather than hovering around forever

14. Ok.

    If you were PM, what would you actually do?

    Is the case of a sanctuary island where any and all are welcome?

    Is it we process and effective deport but run the risk of tension and expensive hotels/ accommodation, and remember we don’t have infinity of resources, because most asylum seekers don’t actually bring a lot to the table in fairness.

    Or is it iron island, you come by legal immigration or instant deportation and life time ban from entering UK.

    Or your own solution. What’s actually the answer because a new city every year isn’t.

15. If these are refugees, did they leave their families at home?

16. Keep putting them in hotels and houses, getting free healthcare and lots illegally working (sending money home) – and then don’t deport – and you wonder why obscene numbers are coming. My guess 150,000 this year with record summer crossings.

    All the while none are vetted, murderers, rapists and previously rejected asylum seekers keep arriving and then we see story after story of hard working people already in the country that are failed by our system.

17. It’s the helplessness of not being able to vote for change because seemingly no major party is willing to do anything about it other than posture.

18. The funny thing is that even the rowanda plan passes, not even half of these people will be sent there.

19. Just intercept them and drop them back in France, FFS I know I’ll sound bad but this shouldn’t be our problem.

20. Refugees but only able body men showing up as “refugees” with no families?
    1 year later they have a wife and 4 children coming in to leech the system.
    Deport all free loaders illegals.

21. The sheer amount of right wing bots on this post jfc.

22. They are simply taking advantage of our own stupidity.