Britain sees a record number of migrant crossings in the English Channel, according to report

[Scott]

 

An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel on August 4, 2022 off the coast of Dover, England.

London (CNN)A total of 1,295 people arrived in the United Kingdom after crossing the English Channel by boat Monday -- the highest daily total of migrants registered since records began in 2018, according to PA Media.

Twenty-seven boats made the journey, according to the UK's Ministry of Defense. As channel crossings continued into Tuesday, around 40 people including young children were rescued and brought ashore in Dover, southern England, by the UK's Border Force.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/europe/uk-english-channel-migrant-crossing-intl/index.html

 

 

[overherebc]

No need to worry. They will be well taken care of using money that pensioners worked all their life for. Maybe those that are facing £4000 a year power bills can spare something for the mainly young fit men who come over the channel in their little boats.

[proton]

Illegal immigrants, most with no right to even claim asylum being from safe countries escorted in by the RNLI ???? If I wanted the Mrs to settle over there I would have to be earning a lot more than a pension and the visa and settlement process would cost thousands. Maybe she could get on one of these boats and call herself an Albanian?

[baboon]

  On 8/28/2022 at 5:58 AM, overherebc said:

As far as I am concerned every one of them should be sent back to the coast on the other side.

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How does that work? Who would take them back?

[Eric Loh]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:16 AM, baboon said:

How does that work? Who would take them back?

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Perhaps their former colonial master after leaving them impoverished. 

[transam]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:16 AM, baboon said:

How does that work? Who would take them back?

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Easy, volunteers with a boot to send them on their way...........

 

[metisdead]

A post baiting another member who had not posted in this topic has been removed as well as the related replies. 

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:25 AM, Eric Loh said:

Perhaps their former colonial master after leaving them impoverished. 

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I meant, who would transport them back across the Channel?

[overherebc]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:29 AM, baboon said:

I meant, who would transport them back across the Channel?

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Lift them out their rubber boats and then take them straight back and drop them off.

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:33 AM, overherebc said:

Lift them out their rubber boats and then take them straight back and drop them off.

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Yes, I understand that, but who would be transporting them?

[proton]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:29 AM, baboon said:

I meant, who would transport them back across the Channel?

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We still have a navy let them do it. This is what the Thai Navy have done in the past- tow them back out to sea and they stopped coming. Put them up in Hotels and give them 40 quid a week and they will not.

[Eric Loh]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:33 AM, overherebc said:

Lift them out their rubber boats and then take them straight back and drop them off.

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Even immigrants have human rights and protection. 

[transam]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:43 AM, Eric Loh said:

Even immigrants have human rights and protection. 

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That's what the highly paid lawyers are very thankful for, which the taxpayer is paying for....????

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:40 AM, proton said:

We still have a navy let them do it. This is what the Thai Navy have done in the past- tow them back out to sea and they stopped coming. Put them up in Hotels and give them 40 quid a week and they will not.

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It isn't that simple. Halfway across the Channel, our Navy would be in French territorial waters, which means an incursion on French territory, a.k.a an act of war if not invited in by the French. You can't do that.

[proton]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:50 AM, baboon said:

It isn't that simple. Halfway across the Channel, our Navy would be in French territorial waters, which means an incursion on French territory, a.k.a an act of war if not invited in by the French. You can't do that.

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Tow them halfway then.

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:43 AM, Eric Loh said:

Even immigrants have human rights and protection. 

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Much to the chagrin of the baby boomers on here who had life handed to them on a silver platter....

[proton]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:43 AM, Eric Loh said:

Even immigrants have human rights and protection. 

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Illegal immigrants from safe countries only have the right to be sent back where they came from

[Eric Loh]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:47 AM, transam said:

That's what the highly paid lawyers are very thankful for, which the taxpayer is paying for....????

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Usually legal aids are from non profit organization that specialized in immigrant laws. 

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:51 AM, proton said:

Tow them halfway then.

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And back to the UK they come, unless you are advocating machine gunning them all to death.

Complex problems do not beget simple solutions, that's why we are where we are.

[transam]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:52 AM, baboon said:

Much to the chagrin of the baby boomers on here who had life handed to them on a silver platter....

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I can't believe you wrote that, what the flush have baby boomers got to do with illegal immigrants.....?

[transam]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:54 AM, Eric Loh said:

Usually legal aids are from non profit organization that specialized in immigrant laws. 

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Yeh riiiight, and they pay for their upkeep too.....?..........????

[overherebc]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:43 AM, Eric Loh said:

Even immigrants have human rights and protection. 

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Does that include illegal immigrants who choose to ignore the laws and rules on immigration and arrive in uk to effectively scam the system?

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 5:02 AM, overherebc said:

Does that include illegal immigrants who choose to ignore the laws and rules on immigration and arrive in uk to effectively scam the system?

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How can one legally set foot on UK soil to request asylum?

How can one request asylum in the UK outside of the UK?

[overherebc]

  On 8/29/2022 at 5:07 AM, baboon said:

How can one legally set foot on UK soil to request asylum?

How can one request asylum in the UK outside of the UK?

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Dont the rules say they should apply for asylum in the first available country they arrive in?

Anyway in real terms they are economic immigrants, read from that, only want what they can get for nothing.

[transam]

  On 8/29/2022 at 5:07 AM, baboon said:

How can one legally set foot on UK soil to request asylum?

How can one request asylum in the UK outside of the UK?

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These folk are not coming from a war torn state, they are coming for the yellow brick road they have been told about by those already there.

They are paying crooks to get them across the channel to mainly disappear ,or milk the system.  

Are you British and supporting them.........?

[Eric Loh]

  On 8/29/2022 at 5:02 AM, overherebc said:

Does that include illegal immigrants who choose to ignore the laws and rules on immigration and arrive in uk to effectively scam the system?

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Were those irregular immigrants given a chance to be granted legal status. They are escaping poverty and seeking a living. Doubt they know enough to risk life and death to scam. 

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 5:13 AM, overherebc said:

Dont the rules say they should apply for asylum in the first available country they arrive in?

Anyway in real terms they are economic immigrants, read from that, only want what they can get for nothing.

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Do these rules state that they have to apply for asylum FOR that first safe country or WHILE IN that first safe country?

So if they are in Turkey, say, but have family / connections in the UK, how can they apply for UK asylum while in Turkey?

[AhFarangJa]

  On 8/29/2022 at 4:40 AM, proton said:

We still have a navy let them do it. This is what the Thai Navy have done in the past- tow them back out to sea and they stopped coming. Put them up in Hotels and give them 40 quid a week and they will not.

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Proton, you missed a zero out, it is closer to 400 quid a week.

This is the same government that said my parents could live on 160 pounds a week pension after working all their lives, and fighting a war to keep U.K. free....

[baboon]

  On 8/29/2022 at 5:27 AM, AhFarangJa said:

Proton, you missed a zero out, it is closer to 400 quid a week.

This is the same government that said my parents could live on 160 pounds a week pension after working all their lives, and fighting a war to keep U.K. free....

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From the horse's mouth:

https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

[andyman57]

  On 8/29/2022 at 5:27 AM, AhFarangJa said:

Proton, you missed a zero out, it is closer to 400 quid a week.

This is the same government that said my parents could live on 160 pounds a week pension after working all their lives, and fighting a war to keep U.K. free....

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Totally agree chap can't live on my pension. Might just nip over the water and come back in a dinghy. Problem solved.loads of money