Channel crossing: One dead and another critical after boat carrying migrants sinks

One person has died and another is in a critical condition in hospital after a boat carrying migrants got into trouble in the Channel.

The boat was carrying 66 people when it got into difficulty about 5 miles (8km) off the French coast, according to the coastguard.

Rescuers reached the vessel at 1am local time and found one of the boat's tubes was deflated and people were in the water.

One was airlifted to hospital by helicopter, while a second person could not be revived.

So many people on the move nowadays, I am sure some are bad actors and many are just looking for a better life, not that many find it. If all western countries just adopted a similar policy, it could end this sad spectacle. Just make sure it becomes known in all countries of origin that a really nasty fate awaits anyone who manages to get in, like ten years in a very boring prison camp with absolutely no amenities, even worse than their homelands, and if the word spread around, maybe they would stop coming. It might need to be 15 or 20 years. But whatever it takes. Britain was trying deportation to Rwanda, not all that pleasant a destination. I suppose that was the thinking, but if Rwanda is better than the country of origin and they cannot go direct to Rwanda, then they will try this way instead.

We cannot sustain such a rate, there are legal channels for immigration and if we don’t make it clear those are the only ones we will allow, then this sort of thing will keep happening, along with all the other well documented problems of illegal immigration. If a compassionate response is sought, then let it be some kind of assistance to countries generating a flow of illegals, but monitored for effect and terminated at first sign of corrupt practices.

Those who invade UK and Europe.... The men rarely work these days. Remember 15-30 years ago, when those who supported illegal alien invasions, claimed they are OK. Because they would be working and paying taxes into each nations SS and social welfare systems?

These days these illegals and fake asylum seekers, they suck billions upon billions out of these social welfare systems. And their wives and 3-6 children even more. In France and other nations, the Muslim man can have multiple wives LEGALLY registered and taking money from social welfare systems. Despite laws against polygamy.

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