> Salih Abdullah, 33, and Ahmed Khater, 25, were arrested on arrival in Dover and later admitted attempting to enter the UK without clearance.
> They were sentenced to 14 months and 12 months imprisonment respectively.
Terrific, so despite paying the French to deal with exactly this, we’re going to be paying to keep them in prison here for a couple of years instead.
> Charlie Eastaugh, director of international operations for the Small Boats Operational Command at the Home Office, said: “Tension on French beaches is increasing due to the successful efforts of law enforcement in frustrating this organised criminal enterprise.
Apparently not that successful: they still made it across the channel and presumably weren’t the only ones on the boat that crossed (the article mentions 51 people on this crossing).
So a year in one of our jails at our expense then when they are released they will immediately claim asylum and get put up in a hotel. Then once their asylum claim is approved (which it most likely will be) they will go straight onto benefits. Then after 5 years on benefits they get to claim indefinite leave to remain oh but they dont have to do any of the required language tests that others do.
You are paying for this.
Presumably the police could have got the French border patrol to the boat before it crossed the boarder if they were watching it leave the beach?
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> Salih Abdullah, 33, and Ahmed Khater, 25, were arrested on arrival in Dover and later admitted attempting to enter the UK without clearance.
> They were sentenced to 14 months and 12 months imprisonment respectively.
Terrific, so despite paying the French to deal with exactly this, we’re going to be paying to keep them in prison here for a couple of years instead.
> Charlie Eastaugh, director of international operations for the Small Boats Operational Command at the Home Office, said: “Tension on French beaches is increasing due to the successful efforts of law enforcement in frustrating this organised criminal enterprise.
Apparently not that successful: they still made it across the channel and presumably weren’t the only ones on the boat that crossed (the article mentions 51 people on this crossing).
So a year in one of our jails at our expense then when they are released they will immediately claim asylum and get put up in a hotel. Then once their asylum claim is approved (which it most likely will be) they will go straight onto benefits. Then after 5 years on benefits they get to claim indefinite leave to remain oh but they dont have to do any of the required language tests that others do.
You are paying for this.
Presumably the police could have got the French border patrol to the boat before it crossed the boarder if they were watching it leave the beach?