I read online that Germany has lost track of 600,000 immigrants there. One of the big reasons the immigrants in Calais, France burned down their encampment was because the French government was determined to have them all identified and issued formal French I.D. They don’t want French I.D., they want to get to the U.K. where the benefits are more generous. Many of these immigrants have several middle eastern I.D.’s, so if they are questioned about a crime, they just use other faked passports and I.D. I read once some years back, a poster said visit Europe now before it becomes downtown Beirut. How prophetic.
It’s actually a myth that benefits for migrants are better in the UK than France. The attraction specifically of the UK in preference to other EU countries appears above all to be language, and secondly job opportunities - in France you can’t get a job without ID, in Britain you often can.