Britain reaches a new illegal migrant record with 9,681 having crossed the Channel so far in 2024 in the biggest boom since records began
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13431577/britain-new-illegal-migrant-record-channel-2024-boom.html
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Biggest boom since records began!
> The previous record for the period January 1 to May 31 was 9,607, which was set in 2022
It’s 74 more than the last record. What a boom…
There’s still a fair bit of May left but I’d expect a fair bit more to call it a boom
Call me cynical but this issue will never be solved for the simple fact that it’s a great campaign promise.
9,681 that we know about, imagine all the ones we don’t.
Tories breaking yet another record.
I expect the daily highest number to be broken again several times this summer.
The further this goes on, the more extreme action any correction will require.
Australia used to have a few thousand people turning up by boat, how did they fix it?
Shouldn’t that be considered an INVASION at this point?
Remember they’re being trafficked here and most likely a large portion being rejected by the EU so they’re coming here. I have seen more and more people from subsahara Africa and middle east doing Uber eats etc on exact same ebikes etc. we really need to investigate it but that’s not gonna happen because the Tories are benefiting from allowing it all to happen especially when one of the richest people in the country gained most of the contracts to house these people.
“An Essex businessman who won government contracts paying his firm £3.5m a day for transporting and accommodating asylum seekers has been named among the 350 richest people in the UK.
Graham King, the founder and majority owner of a business empire that includes Clearsprings Ready Homes, which won a 10-year Home Office contract for housing thousands of asylum seekers, was on Friday named alongside King Charles III, the prime minister and Sir Paul McCartney on the Sunday Times rich list of the wealthiest people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/17/british-asylum-housing-tycoon-breaks-into-sunday-times-rich-list
A comment from another post talking about the richest people in the UK.
Now you begin to understand why things are the way they are.
Rwanda’s going well then, well worth the hype and exorbitant expense…
But on a more serious and optimistic note, the BBC recently did a fantastic investigation and article (that you can read [here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qv0grgy7yo)) that resulted in one of the leaders of one of the biggest smuggling gangs getting arrested. It’s also a fascinating insight into how these gangs evade the law across borders by essentially playing investigations against each other and moving quickly once a local investigation starts to corner them. Stopping these gangs requires a level of cross-border cooperation between police forces that isn’t usually done and there don’t seem to be operational procedures to enable the cooperation required. It requires a lot of careful navigation of difficult geopolitical environments that the smugglers use to hide from the law, as well as the arguably more challenging issue of police forces being territorial and protective of their own operations or uncomfortable with international travel as part of operations. A Greek or Turkish or Iraqi police officer won’t take kindly to the British Home Office calling them up and telling them how to do their job, especially if they’ve already done it and the British police haven’t acted because they don’t see going to Iraq or Turkey etc. as within the purview of a domestic police force.
We need an intelligence led approach that tackles the problem at the source and targets the weak points in gang operations like financial processing and false document manufacturing. There is nothing we can do about the demand for people smuggling – the world is in a rough state so business will boom and no number of so-called deterrents will change that – but we can do something about the supply by targeting the gangs rather than the people they so often exploit or even enslave. Investing the money we’re spending on a politically driven gimmick into the actual nuts and bolts of cross-border investigations would bring far better results.
This problem did not exist until the Tories created it .
All the screamers at the sea claimed just a few days ago that the Rwanda scheme was already a powerful deterrent…
I guess all those coming will cross over to Ireland right?
Well we needed thousands more young men with few women accompanying them. What could possibly go wrong in changing those demographics so quickly.
But I thought all the talking heads around here like to say the threat of Rwanda is working and the Tories definitely have a handle on it???
Is it just me, or does the UK have much bigger problems that need solving than 10k people coming across in boats
I’m so glad we took back control of our borders…seems to be working very well 🙄
This is not just a UK issue, it’s the same story (and higher numbers because they don’t have the channel) for Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium etc etc
And this is mostly because these countries are all signed up to multiple legal frameworks which make deporting illegal migrants very, very difficult (e.g. the European Court of Human Rights, the UNHCR’s refugee convention, and more). Western Europe, for now, still abides by the rule of law, democracy and international agreements – and until it changes or leaves these courts and legal agreements, very little will change. The current frameworks were designed over half a century ago and are basically not fit for purpose.
Europe should only be taking in refugees directly from camps, and really should only be taking in those who are most vulnerable e.g. women and children. Anyone arriving illegally via smuggling gangs should ideally be permanently barred from settling, until Europe has a blanket rule like that – we will be stuck.
Conservatives have no reason to fix this now. They know they’re going to lose the impending election and can use this to hammer Labour. And you know what? The public will lap it up.
Whoever wins the next election, likely Labour, will have 5 years to undo 15 years of enshitification, a daunting task, and the public goodwill probably lasts about 6 months if that before they start agreeing with points the conservatives attack them on. Despite the fact that the conservatives fucked all of this up over 15 years.
The global economy is having a downturn. People in poor countries try to get to richer countries. Hmmm.