Migrants’ attempts to reach UK illegally set to rise, UN says | Rate of displacement worldwide shows no sign of slowing
Migrants’ attempts to reach UK illegally set to rise, UN says | Rate of displacement worldwide shows no sign of slowing
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Illegal migration to Britain is likely to rise as a report said the number of displaced people worldwide had reached a record high of 110 million.
The UN’s annual study into displacement by war, persecution, violence and human rights abuses said the figure stood at 108.4 million by the end of last year. This was up 19.1 million compared with the previous 12 months.
It said the rate of displacement showed no sign of slowing in 2023, mainly because of the conflict in Sudan, which had pushed the global total to about 110 million by May.
The UNHCR report highlights that refugees have, overwhelmingly, fled to poor nations, with the 46 least-developed countries hosting one in five refugees. This is despite these countries accounting for less than 1.3 per cent of global gross domestic product.
Separate figures suggest that 80,000 people entered the EU in the first three months of the year, about quadruple last year’s figure for the same period.
The Home Office has said that on Monday, 545 migrants crossed the Channel in 11 small boats, an average of about 50 per vessel. That took the number to have crossed in the past three days to 1,248 and this year’s total to 8,858. Last week, Rishi Sunak claimed his plan to stop the boats was “starting to work”.
Yesterday a Labour peer suggested in a debate in the Lords that the small boats used by migrants to cross the English Channel be sent to Ukraine to aid relief efforts following flooding caused by the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam. Tens of thousands of people in and around Kherson have been affected.
Lord Berkeley asked Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, a Foreign Office minister, if he was aware that there was a shortage of boats in Ukraine. He said: “Will he work with me to try and repurpose some of the boats coming across the channel with so-called illegal immigrants so they can be reused in Ukraine without being wrecked to stop them being reused in this country?”
The minister responded: “I think the basis of what he says is important — that we need to ensure what the needs of Ukraine are, and to meet them, and if they require boats, we will seek to provide them.”
Remove the pull factors and people will start to sort the problems at home instead of taking the east road out.
Frankly if the UK actually focused on assimilation then it wouldn’t be a problem. But we’re probably past that kind of shift occuring as a possibility.
Let’s license more oil and gas extraction and expand our airports, that’ll surely help the situation.
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And sell a few tens of billions of pounds of weapons in the middle east, while we’re at it…
Then quite simply the amount of people border patrol turns away should increase. Simple solutions.
welcome to england where the inflation is almost double than in EU, where the rent is more than the minimum wage. Welcome!
Shame we can’t have a sensible conversation about how many we can actually take, given our current infrastructure. Instead, let’s just spend our time virtue-signalling on social media about just how unracist we are. That’ll solve the problem.
Well, this is why it pays to have natives at the head of our country. When our govt is a 60/40 blend of foreign nationals this is the type of country you get.