Channel crossings: More than 4,000 people cross to UK in small boats in 2022 – nearly four times the amount for same time last year
Channel crossings: More than 4,000 people cross to UK in small boats in 2022 – nearly four times the amount for same time last year
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We had 28,000 last year. Four times that is almost 120,000
Add on up to 200,000 from Ukraine. 220,000 from the usual net migration. 50k from HK.
That’s 600k this year alone.
Anyway, all the best with trying to get your GP appointments.
Gee, I wonder what happens when you close the processing center, leave the bloc that shared the admin, and create application centers available only by email?
I have not yet spoken to any Leave-voters who understood that the asylum system is from a UN treaty, not an EU one. Sadly I find it common for wanting to stop these crossings to have been a motive for voting Leave.
In fact the EU has an agreement, called the Dublin Agreement, which allows members to send back migrants who came from another EU country. We have now left that treaty so no longer have that option.
For those leave voters, its an example of Brexit making their area of concern instantly worse for the UK.
Can they go drain someone else’s systems instead please. They were safe on mainland Europe. Fuck off.
Fleeing the horrors of France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The resource intensive process of vetting (as best as you can when they deliberately turn up with no documents) and housing so many young male economic migrants means that our ability to help Ukrainian refugees is massively diminished. When it comes to any country with finite places to put people up, it is a zero sum game