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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.UK panel asks govt to scrap plan to turn back migrant boats
By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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M3M3M3
Withdraw from the UN refugee convention and end the asylum system as we know it. Focus on alleviating the misery of everyone in the source countries instead of pampering the tiny minority who reach Britain.
RegBilk
“Current failures in the immigration and asylum system cannot be remedied by harsher penalties and more dangerous enforcement action,” she said.
The UK has to protect its citizens first, and protect its borders from unauthorized entries. Immigration was a major factor in the Brexit vote. Stay the course.
Desert Tortoise
Immigration (code word for racism) was a major factor in the Brexit vote.
RegBilk
Desert TortoiseToday 08:10 am JST
Racism runs rampant in the UK without immigration being considered.
RegBilk
zichiToday 08:29 am JST
Denial is a prime ingredient for the continued breeding of racism in the UK.
But sounds like a lot more people want to enter the US instead of the UK; maybe that is part of the reason.
RegBilk
zichiToday 08:41 am JST
Deniers of racism in the UK who write posts seeking to minimize the reality.
Guess you don't know the UK land border size--11,072 miles. British citizens would know that though,
It's working out great for the unauthorized entrants.
Attilathehungry
If the UK is so racist, why do people risk their lives by fleeing from France to enter it?
The way to solve this crisis is simple. Return all those in camps along the coast to their "first country of refuge". If they are indeed asylum seekers/refugees, then their first entry point into Europe is where they should be processed and their claims adjudicated.
Smugglers and human traffickers? Kill them, sink their boats as a warning to others. Plus, the sunken boats will provide a habitat for the growth of new coral reefs and the like.
Express sister
If you turn away desperate migrants and refugees, you are scum. I will not elaborate on this.
itsonlyrocknroll
Harriet Harman knows full well that no economic, fiscal, system of health social care that any UK government could possibly process or manage such a level of illegal migration.
There will come a point where the British Government will have to take firm action and possibility forcibly turn these dinghies back. This could take place in international waters that separate France from UK.
There could well be fatalities. Both the UK and French Government will be responsible.
The UK will have to fully utilize its Navy and the dangers for full confrontation will escalate considerably.
It is pointless harping Brexit political points scoring.
The EU UK relationship could well descend to such acrimony to be deemed beyond life support.
Attilathehungry
Sister, these people are not desperate if they can come up with 5,000 Euros to pay someone to carry them across the channel. If they WERE truly refugees and migrants, they would stay in the first safe country they entered and await a decision. But travelling across a continent in an effort to 'shop' for their preferred destination is not what real refugees do.
Express sister
That's exactly what desperation is, actually.
RegBilk
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed legislation that would give authorities patrolling the English Channel the power to turn away boats carrying migrants. The Nationality and Borders Bill would also make it more difficult for people who enter the country illegally to claim asylum and allow asylum-seekers to be screened abroad.
This is well-needed legislation.
AttilathehungryToday 09:34 am JST
You answered your own question--France.
If the US is so racist why do people risk their lives by fleeing from numerous countries to enter it?
zichiToday 09:30 am JST
RegBilk
Leave it at that FF.
Attilathehungry
Sister, that 5,000 Euro would be better spent housing and clothing their children, not lining the pocket of a career criminal human trafficker. These people aren't desperate, they are greedy. They are looking for the best deal in terms of public benefits, they aren't looking for refuge. They already HAVE refuge. They had refuge the moment they entered the EU zone. Any attempt after that moment is just greed.
Express sister
All of this is wrong, actually.
Tom San
Exactly.
Attilathehungry
Care to elaborate, Sister? What is the purpose of people who have already reached safety to continue their journey and choose to do so by dealing with human traffickers?