chrisdalott:
Brexit not being properly implemented has made it easier for small boat crossings to reach UK, refugees say
Refugees living in northern France say lack of Brexit enforcement, i.e. ‘drawbridge pulled up, channel policed with force’ has made it easier for them to reach the UK in small boats, as it emerged that record numbers of people crossed the Channel in one day.
Despite the worsening weather conditions and the lip service of the UK government’s attempts to deter them, 1,185 people made the crossing on Thursday, according to the Home Office. Strange how they know that number so exactly, and yet deportations remain resoundingly at, or near zero…
Refugees who have fled a variety of conflict zones including Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Eritrea told the Guardian they believed the fact the UK was no longer part of the EU made it more appealing to risk the dangerous crossings because they could no longer be sent back to other European countries under EU legislation. No questions got asked about those “Regugees” with the wrong accent for the country they are supposed to have come from - France, or French Africa.
In October 2020 Boris Johnson said Brexit would enable Britain to take back “full control of our money, our borders and our laws”.
It will indeed enable Britain to do these things - once Britain is no longer run by a lying, scheming politician like all the other liars over the years that say anything to get elected, then promptly put on the back burner all those things they promised to do, whilst bringing forward a whole bunch of expensive follies NONE of us voted for!!
Nevertheless, while the overall number of people fleeing conflict and claiming asylum in the UK has fallen to 31,115 in the last 12 months, the number crossing from France to the UK in small boats has risen sharply since the UK parted company from the EU.
fallen? - What? - for The biggest crock-‘o’-■■■■■ ever
Previously, when the UK was part of the EU, under a mechanism known as Dublin the UK could ask other EU countries to take back people they could prove had passed through safe European countries before reaching the UK. A loser, without rigid enforcement. Instead, our police only seem to know how to bump off defenceless ladies, rather than bording vessels mid-channel, busting everyone on board, including the skipper and so-called “Officials”, no doubt with people trafficers at large among them.
The UK could make “take charge” requests and officials were often able to prove that asylum seekers had passed through other countries thanks to the Eurodac fingerprint database. But since Brexit the UK no longer has access to that database, so it is harder to prove definitively which other European countries small boat arrivals to the UK have previously passed through. If if doubt - kick 'em out!
theguardian.com/politics/20 … fugees-say
funny that because most people on this forum used to say how we would be able to send them all straight back as soon as we got out from the european yuman rites act
Except we still seem to be languishing under EU legislation, with no Brexit representative at Westminster to continue holding the government’s feet to the fire over every bit of backsliding done since Boris-the-Pod’s Bun-in-the-Oven Deal.
Where’s the beefed-up coast guard vessels with the powers of deportation, arrest, imprisoning, and deadly force in the event of violent resistance by the people trafficing boat crews?