Farage (UK): Turn Back Migrant Boats Like Australia Or More People Will Die

Breitbart ^ | 12-3-2020 | Kurt Zindulka

[blam]

The deal between France and the United Kingdom will do little to stem the tides of illegal boat migrants unless the British government adopts an Australian ‘turn back the boats’ policy in the English Channel, said Brexit leader Nigel Farage.

Mr Farage said that his experience saving two migrants from drowning over the weekend demonstrated to him the “folly” of the government’s approach in dealing with the record waves of illegal aliens pouring over the Channel.

“From what I witnessed in the Channel on Sunday morning, it’s not just the volume of those making the journey across this treacherous stretch of water that alarms voters, bringing with them a host of expensive practical problems that must be paid for by hard-pressed taxpayers,” he wrote in The Telegraph.

“It’s also the sense that a major tragedy is sure to occur sooner or later. Sadly, some immigrants are known to have died already while making the journey,” he added.

Mr Farage said that “no agreement with any French minister will stop this cruel trade”, arguing that the only feasible means of stopping the migrant boats would be to immediately return the vessels to France, similar to the strategy adopted by Australia under the leadership of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

“If Britain is to control this problem for once and for all, there is only one way to do so. The time has come to adopt the measures used by Australia and turn the boats back,” Farage wrote.

In 2013, Mr Abbott’s government introduced Operation Sovereign Borders, in which migrant boats, hailing mostly from Indonesia, were immediately turned back to their country of origin or brought to off-shore asylum processing centres in third-party countries.

The strategy effectively shut down the illegal migrant routes that had been plaguing Australia before its implementation.

(snip)

[pepsi_junkie]

Nigel, Nigel. Don't you know the purpose of these lockdowns is to control and subjugate the populace? It's not to tie the hands of the government in pursuing policies they want to or promoting groups they want to. The BLM riots should have made that clear.

The migrants will keep entering the country while you shelter in place and hope that someday the government will allow you to see the sun again.

[Little Ray]

Sink the boats.
They are invaders who come for the sole purpose of eating up the resources of the kingdom
They contribute little or nothing in return.
They bring pernicious beliefs that weaken the cohesion of society and increase the level violence.
They don’t need to survive their attempted invasion.