Asylum-seekers... then why smuggle?!
Regardless of the rules saying the first country not at war is where you claim asylum.
This shit costs the UK £28 million. Oddly enough, it was a Syrian man who was doing the smuggling.
We have no idea who's in our country.
Quote:Channel crossings: Suspected people-smuggling gang arrested in raids
'A suspected people-smuggling gang accused of bringing hundreds of people to the UK in small boats
has been broken up, the Home Office says. A 36-year-old British Syrian man was detained at his flat in
north-west London on Thursday morning, bringing the total number of arrests to 14.
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The group is alleged to have helped more than 600 people cross the Channel in May alone.
About 80% of the people they are thought to have smuggled were Syrian.
Home Secretary Priti Patel, who watched the raid being carried out, said she had "repeatedly and
unapologetically" pointed out that smuggling people by illegal means put lives at risk. "We have
seen people die this year in the Channel," she said.
Home Secretary Priti Patel.
"It is absolutely right that we do everything, we use all the tools we have from a law enforcement perspective,
to go after them."
The rest of the group were arrested in raids in London and Sheffield over several months.
Channel crossings by migrants increased sharply from April, with more than 8,200 people making the journey in
small boats so far in 2020, compared to 1,844 last year and 299 in 2018.
Most claim asylum on arrival in the UK, but the overall numbers doing so have fallen in 2020 as the pandemic has
meant other routes - by road and air - have been less accessible. Campaigners say asylum seekers - most of whom
have fled places such as Iran, Iraq and Syria before making the Channel crossing - have no choice but to enter the
UK illegally, as it is not possible to apply for asylum outside the country and there are no safe and legal routes...'
Regardless of the rules saying the first country not at war is where you claim asylum.
This shit costs the UK £28 million. Oddly enough, it was a Syrian man who was doing the smuggling.
We have no idea who's in our country.
Quote:'...The home secretary praised the French authorities for taking stronger action to prevent boats from departing,BBC:
saying that on one day when 20 people made it across, more than 200 had been stopped from leaving the beaches
of Normandy.
These interventions have contributed to a 65% fall in the number of crossings on days when the sea is calm, the
Home Office said. The number of crossings peaked at 1,868 for the month of September.
"They have actually been going into the waters to stop boats from listing and sinking to save lives and it's absolutely
the right thing to do," Ms Patel said. "These routes are dangerous. Lives have been put at risk." Both the French and
UK governments were committed to making this route "unviable", she said. "We want to cut this route completely
and we will stop at nothing to try and do that."
She said people should seek asylum in the first safe country they can get to, adding that "European member states
are safe countries". Under a new agreement with France which began at the weekend, the UK is paying £28m
towards doubling the number of police officers on beaches and on surveillance technology such as drones, radar
and cameras.
Ms Patel said when the Brexit transition period ends in January, the UK government will negotiate agreements
with individual EU countries such as France to return people who could have claimed asylum earlier in their
journeys through Europe.
"We will start negotiating bilaterally, country by country, and we are already making that very, very clear to EU member
states. Bilateral relations matter," she said. Existing agreements on returning asylum seekers will expire with the Brexit
transition period and negotiations with the EU have so far failed to produce an agreement...'
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