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FIVE DEAD on migrant boat trying to cross the Channel - as 'father saw daughter die before him'
Sky News ^ | April 23 | Sky News

Posted on 04/23/2024 10:40:04 AM PDT by RandFan

Five migrants including a child have died during an attempt to cross the English Channel in a small boat.

A seven-year-old girl, a woman and three men died in the incident off the coast of Wimereux in northern France, local official Jacques Billant said.

The French coastguard said there was a failed attempt to cross the Channel and there were several "lifeless bodies".

The tragedy came just hours after the UK government's controversial Rwanda bill - intended to deter migrants from crossing the Channel in small boats - was passed.

Some 112 people were on board the overcrowded boat, Mr Billant said.

A total of 47 people were rescued, with four taken to hospital, while more than 50 others chose to continue on their journey, the official added.

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It's a real MESS and palpable outrage. They're still coming despite the threat of being deported to Rwanda - it wont make a difference .

The UK government are lacking once again either incompetence or by design?

1 posted on 04/23/2024 10:40:04 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The irony was a photo of a dead little girl on the shore was the catalyst for europeans to throw open the borders in sympathy. And here we have another dead little girl because of it.


2 posted on 04/23/2024 10:45:18 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: RandFan

Sink the boats!


3 posted on 04/23/2024 10:57:34 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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How many UK fathers had to deal with their daughters being raped by migrants?


4 posted on 04/23/2024 11:07:24 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: RandFan
A total of 47 people were rescued, with four taken to hospital, while more than 50 others chose to continue on their journey,

Does that mean that the 47 will be deported?

Why would they let the other 50 continue on their journey?
Isn't their journey to illegally arrive in the UK?

5 posted on 04/23/2024 11:08:02 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: RandFan

Don’t cross the channel in an unsafe vessel.


6 posted on 04/23/2024 11:09:01 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Tai_Chung

It was the French coastguard. I’m sure they don’t care if the illegal aliens go to the UK as long as they leave France.


7 posted on 04/23/2024 11:10:29 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Jane Long

Colonialism kept the order. Is that the solution? That horse has left the barn.


8 posted on 04/23/2024 11:11:25 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Sunak wants to ship them to Africa which enjoys support.

He got the Rwanda bill through the other day.

However I’m not convinced they will ever go and if it will be much of a deterrent.

He wants them on the planes to Africa by July/August just in time for the election


9 posted on 04/23/2024 11:25:44 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: pepsi_junkie
The irony was a photo of a dead little girl on the shore was the catalyst for europeans to throw open the borders in sympathy.

And until 2022, that was the largest refugee flow in Europe, caused by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Barack Obama's manufactured Syrian civil-war in an attempt to overthrow Syria's Assad.

And that triggered the Euro-puppet globalists threw open their borders to "welcome refugee" millions of invaders from the mid-east and Africa.

10 posted on 04/23/2024 11:27:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tai_Chung

Oh they will keep coming. They get put up in Hotels at great expense. (billions!)

The idea is to ship them to Africa and this will act as a deterrent

Sunak has a deal with Rwanda where they can start a new life < g > (isn’t that what they claim they want, after all?)

But it’s very expensive and I doubt thousands will go more like a few hundred on planes just in time for the election


11 posted on 04/23/2024 11:29:21 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

His fault, his guilt. Maybe he goes home and tells others to stay.


12 posted on 04/23/2024 11:32:01 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Tai_Chung

They showed the end of their journey... They got “rescued” by UK coastguard and are IN.

One was even in a wheelchair and needs treatment....

Guess who pays for this....


13 posted on 04/23/2024 11:34:05 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Her death is on his hands.


14 posted on 04/23/2024 11:50:36 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: nonliberal

Reminds me of that old song by The Forgotten Rebels:

“Bomb the boats — feed the fish!”


15 posted on 04/23/2024 12:14:37 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: RandFan

Doesn’t the UK have a navy?


16 posted on 04/23/2024 12:16:35 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: RandFan

Doesn’t the UK have a navy?


17 posted on 04/23/2024 12:19:09 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: RandFan

Either:

A) The UK treats those boats as if they were filled with Waffen SS troops, or

B) The indigenous population of eth British Isles is displaced and eventually replaced with a wholly different people.

Why this decision is proving difficult is hard to understand. I expect the Conservative Party is going to be wiped out in a rout of historic proportions at the next election, which will occur by January 2025 at the latest, and I expect the same result for the GOP in the House, and for the same reasons, this November.

If you have body or soul, home or hearth at risk from a massive Democratic victory in November, I suggest you do what you can to prepare now.


18 posted on 04/23/2024 12:25:03 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Is what the solution?

Not getting on an unsafe vessel to sneak into a country?

Not sure what you’re meaning by your post.


19 posted on 04/23/2024 12:28:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: metmom

Agree.


20 posted on 04/23/2024 12:30:09 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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