Posted on 10/22/2025 2:27:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The UK’s border chief has expressed frustration that the French authorities have not been able to roll out tactics to puncture and disable boats carrying asylum seekers in shallow waters.
Martin Hewitt, the border security commander at the Home Office, told MPs that rapid changes in government in France had been a “political backdrop” to introducing a tactic seen as crucial to countering “taxi boats” being used to smuggle people to the UK.
Appearing before the Commons’ home affairs select committee, Hewitt said it was “frustrating” that the French authorities had not been able to roll out more interventionist tactics against boats, which pick up people in shallow waters off French beaches.
In June, the French cabinet pledged to change the way maritime law was interpreted in order to allow police officers to intercept migrant boats at sea for the first time – within 300 metres of the coast.
This was hailed by government insiders as a “gamechanger” for their efforts to stop the crossings, which have reached more than 32,000 so far this year.
French police have since said they would not act on the orders without assurances they will be protected, properly trained and well equipped.
Asked why the tactic was not yet being used, and if political instability in France was a factor, Hewitt said he was working closely with the French secretary-general to the sea, a senior French official, but continued to find the process “frustrating”.
“I was over, and met with him in Paris three weeks ago to really press the point about how significant delivering this maritime tactic is for us because of the taxi boat scenario.
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Video tape the destruction of one boatful, put it on the news. It changes everything.
It’s not the French’s problem. The Brits need to do it themselves.
Agreed. Why the Royal Navy doesn’t have submarines patrolling the English Channel looking for these boats is beyond me.
France has historically done a bang-up job helping Brits secure the English Channel.
(Lucy a encore attrapé le ballon de football de Charlie Brown!)
It's the UK. Deport the invaders to somewhere out in the Pitcairn Islands.
Past Calais it’s all wogs.
so you stop them ,D’oh
and turn off all that FREE STUFF
Too busy hating Russia and sending long-range missiles to attack Russia to Ukraine among other things.
If the migrants were loaded onto Russian ships to cross the Channel the UK might actually do something.
This is the thing - Britain will sink the boats (which is kind of a euphemism for “kill the people”) or they will be overwhelmed and lose their green and pleasant land.
That’s it. Those are the choices. Meetings, negotiations, threats, agreements, the rules based international order - all bullshit.
Kill or be killed. Choose.
Don’t blow them up, send them straight to rockpiles and put them to work. Film and publish. End of Problem.
Translation here is that the French police are afraid of being mobbed and attacked by criminal migrant gangs trying to launch their boats to the UK. This looks like a legitimate complaint to me.
Look how ICE gets mobbed in US cities.
Use appropriate speed to create maximum wake.
Swamp them small boats.
Yeah, it’s not rocket science. Although, a couple of rocket missiles, well you know.
“UK border chief ‘frustrated’ at French failure to curb small boat crossings”
President Trump knows how to deal these kind of unwanted boats ...
Nothing says impotence like leaking how frustrated you are that another country isn’t solving your problems.
Doesn’t matter, anymore.
All of Europe’s pretty much gone; some areas much worse than others.
Welcome your new overlords, folks.
If they would adopt a policy to puncture them in deeper waters, I believe this would have a strong effect to stop the practice.
Send em back. Catapults at the top of the cliffs of Dover.
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