This is incorrect. If you want to bracket all people making the crossing they are MIGRANTS - not asylum seekers. The asylum seekers are a subset of these who are not e.g. economic migrants or criminals escaping justice such as the 1
- 2% of the young male population of Albania who have decided they'll have an easier or more lucrative time in the UK instead of any other part of the EU.
it's important to get terminology right in this. Using "asylum seeker" for these elements lazily deprives real asylum seekers who are escaping persecution of their due sympathetic welcome.
