Posted on 08/07/2024 4:59:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
More than 4,000 small-boat migrants have reached Britain since Labour came to power.
Home Office figures showed 355 people crossed the Channel illegally on Tuesday, bringing the total since the General Election to 4,065.
The third consecutive day of arrivals also brought this year’s running total to 17,639, it was confirmed yesterday.
Shadow home secretary James Cleverly called on the Government to ‘get a grip’. He said migrants on the French side of the Channel had been waiting until the Rwanda asylum scheme was scrapped.
Cancelling the Conservatives’ plan to remove irregular migrants – including those who arrive by small boat – was one of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s first acts in office.
The Rwanda scheme had been designed to remove migrants’ ability to stay in the UK and deter them from making the crossing in the first place.
Last September it was reported that the National Crime Agency (NCA) – dubbed ‘Britain’s FBI’ – had assessed that ministers would struggle to stop the boats without a scheme to remove and deter migrants.
So far this year 23 people have died attempting to make the perilous crossing from continental Europe.
Tuesday’s arrivals are thought to include about 60 people, including at least one young child, who were photographed by drone aboard an overladen dinghy.
Mr Cleverly said: ‘We knew that there were people waiting until the Rwanda partnership was scrapped to cross the Channel, and it has come to pass.
‘Labour got rid of the deterrent the NCA said we needed, they can’t find someone to run their phantom border command, and the people smugglers can see that. Now they are taking advantage, 4,000 migrants have taken the potentially lethal journey across the Channel since Labour came to power.’
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Would you trust Paul Ryan? Appropriate question? You tell me.
I would be tickled if only 17,000 illegal aliens crossed into the US this year.
For some perspective, that is about two days take of those walking illegally into the USA.
gawd! DNC in USA and Labour in UK and of course the current Canadian regime..and more... all leftist regimes selling out their homelands to the invasion
it is very very dangerous
Making the Rio Grande wider would really be a Big Dig project. It wouldn’t have to be as wide as the English Channel, but too wide to walk.
Hitler blinked at invading England. Little did he know.
Easy. Sink the GD boats with everyone aboard. Yes, it is harsh. But they are invader intent on destroying the country and must be dealt as such. Do that once and they will stop.
No.
The Tories never got a grip on it either.
Just made empty promises year after year.
The current GB governing fascists seem to be illegitimate.
Hey England, try 20 million invaders like the Jobama has allowed into the US.
Well, it seems the British public voted for this.
Or, perhaps all of the elections in the western world are completely fake and the rulers control everything.
Can we have Abbott and DeSantis load a few dozen boats with illegals and send them to the UK?
Gee....if only the Germans had called themselves illegals they could have taken the UK with ease.
Land mines would be cheaper.
It is a tiny country.
Not on my life.
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