UK ready to deport 100 migrants but those in France are undeterred
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/channel-migrants-france-deal-deterrent-ctf603drb
Posted by GnolRevilo
UK ready to deport 100 migrants but those in France are undeterred
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/channel-migrants-france-deal-deterrent-ctf603drb
Posted by GnolRevilo
10 Comments
Well if 1000 come per day, they’re probably thinking the 9/10 odds are in their favour.
Remember 99% of Syrians, 99% of Sudanese, 88% of Afghanistanis, and 76% of Iranians have their asylum accepted. If they’re in this group, they will know they’re practically guaranteed asylum.
So, yes – that’s why they’re undeterred. I have no good reason to believe anything will change, and the problem won’t continue to get worse.
Here is a breakdown of recent trends and specific legal migration figures:
Year ending December 2024: 431,000
Year ending June 2023: 906,000 (revised figure)
Year ending December 2023: 860,000
Recent Figures:
In 2024, approximately 37,000 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats.
From January to June 2025, around 20,000 crossings were recorded, which was the highest figure for that period ever.
Same day hearings and deportations should fix that
I mean obviously. Its barely started and most migrants aren’t even aware of it yet. What a bad faith article.
Labour come up with the first real potential solution to the small boats crisis, and the media have already turned on them before its even began. Where was all this scepticism from the Times over Rwanda?
The main question for me has always been: how sure are we that we can get a strong message into the communication circles of the migrants before they attempt the trip? Billboards in Albania didn’t work. Online ads with warnings didn’t work. The traffickers have got people believing the UK is the land of milk and honey and that it’s worth handing over tens of thousands of pounds for an extremely dangerous journey across the channel. It just feels crazy how from our perspective we can all see how big of a lie it is (these migrants are often paying more to the traffickers than the average UK citizen has in savings!), and there’s clearly a massive disconnect when it comes to how the migrants are consuming information, and where they get it from. Sometimes I feel like the solution to all this is just paying a couple of hundred undercover police / government field workers to go and infiltrate all the camps and groups preparing to make the journey, and literally do nothing but talk to the would-be illegal immigrants about how the UK and the channel voyage is absolutely not worth them dumping their life’s savings on, that they’re being lied to. Starve the traffickers of their income and the problem will surely all but disappear…
UK: Stop coming, or there is a very small chance you will be returned back to where you are now at absolutely no cost to yourself!
In what world is that a deterrent?
Deport a French citizen for each illegal immigrant that arrives on UK shores. They’ll soon stop finding easy passage.
Have you tried asking asylum seekers that move on to Ireland tho ?
Daily reminder that our increase in asylum seekers is directly a result of us leaving the EU, and if you take issue with asylum seekers you should be outspoken about rejoining