It doesn't really matter how you frame it.
What most people in the UK want is an end to the thousands of young fighting age men of a certain faith coming over in boats to milk the UK asylum system. Call them legal , call them illegal, call them whatever you like. It needs to stop.
Ireland have managed to start sending them back to the UK.
What have Labour done so far about those economic migrants? Cancelled the only plan that may have discouraged the channel crossings. Unsurprisingly the numbers coming over are rising again.