On Migrants Bobbing About In the English Channel
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Britain’s Home Secretary, Sajid Javid has declared a crisis over migrants bobbing about in the English Channel, in clearly unsuitable craft, trying to make their way to the United Kingdom.
It appears that their previous method of trying to get here by stowing away in the back of large trucks is now too difficult. I presume the French finally got their act together to stop it on French soil. Whether that was as a result of more and more British lorry drivers threatening to run over migrants trying to get into their trucks I have no idea.
Anyway, it appears the French have made it too difficult for truck hopping now.
As a result, small and frequently unseaworthy vessels have been found with any number of somewhat damp migrants aboard. They have been brought into Dover, mainly, dried off and given food and a warm drink.
The crisis that Javid is on about, (see, you can do so many things with his name after a few beers), is apparently the fact that they want to come to the UK illegally.
I have no idea whether he has spoken to Donald Trump about this but, frankly, building a wall in the English Channel is possibly even beyond a Trump reality. Well, it might not be, who knows?
Most people have no idea why these damp migrants are something Sajid considers a crisis.
Certainly it would be good if the French could stop them all getting into rubber dinghy’s and bobbing off into one of the most dangerous shipping lanes on the planet, but a crisis?
Southern Europe had, and indeed, still has a crisis in this regard. Hundreds of thousands of migrants bobbed over the Mediterranean Sea to Greek Islands or Malta or Italy. Now that is a crisis.
The UK? Well, apparently a few dozen have so far managed to not drown and get here, usually via being rescued en route.
Besides, even if it was hundreds or thousands, it still isn’t really a crisis for the UK. It’s simple. Return them to France. That’s where they came from so that’s where they go back to.
Are they migrants or asylum seekers? Doesn’t matter. Send them back to France. It’s quite legal and above board. Once returned it is up to France whether they let them stay or return them elsewhere.
It’s called ‘control’ and ‘management’. You need these things in order to run a country and, of course, protect the country from undesirables arriving.
That isn’t to say all, or even any come to that, of the Channel crossing damp migrants are undesirables. The thing is, we don’t know because they have chosen to ignore the legal method of coming here and opted for the very wet rubber dinghy method.
Migrants apply to come here. We ascertain whether they have any skills useful to us along with ensuring they don’t want to behead us or blow us up. Having established that they are genuinely doctors or plumbers or carpenters or what ever and will clearly be a benefit to our country, we may well allow them in.
I would add that, in my view, we should also establish that they realize they are coming to the UK and, if we are to welcome them, it is necessary for them to fit in with us rather than expect us to fit in with them – but that’s just me I suppose.
As for those who would claim they are asylum seekers. Excuse me? The rules on asylum are so simple even a chimpanzee running from an African bush fire across some border or other can probably understand them.
You claim asylum in the first safe haven you reach. That is the first safe haven, not the fourth or fifth. Arriving across the Mediterranean Sea in a sieve, travelling from a Greek island via Italy, Germany and France, then hopping onto a lilo and floating over to the UK does not mean, on arrival in the UK you say “I claim asylum.”
Sorry. Doesn’t work that way.
You claim asylum in the first safe haven. End of.
Now clearly, the first safe haven cannot cope with the thousands of asylum seekers, let alone, migrants, that are landing there. The Greek island of Lesbos for example, would undoubtedly sink if that was the case.
After sensible checks and suitable considerations, dispersal over Europe is the way. All the genuine ones end up somewhere safe that isn’t the first safe haven but it is done sensibly and in a methodical way.
That ensures the dodgy ones such as terrorists are rooted out and dealt with. It also ensures that no European country ends up with a million more plumbers than it needs.
See Sajid? er Savid? er Dajid? or whatever your bloody name is, it isn’t a crisis unless you and politicians everywhere allow it to develop into a crisis.
Just follow the bloody rules. Sometimes, just sometimes, the rules do make sense.
I can’t believe I have just said that! Me! Arguing in favor of rules! Good grief. What is the world coming too?
As for the rules making sense, that’s more than can be said for our Home Secretary, Sajid ‘Crisis’ Javid.
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Never thought I would say on this on any good day, much less a Sunday, but the immigrant situation in Europe is really bad, so, in that sense I agree with Neil. But wait a minute!!!! Neil doesn’t think the UK is really in Europe, so I guess we can just forget it then.
Uh?…and when, precisely, did I show such a poor grasp of geography? 🙂
The UK is an island off the coast of Europe therefore it is, technically, separate geographically speaking. However, I, personally, have no issue with the UK being included as a part of Europe.
That’s Europe as opposed to The EU, which isn’t, of course, Europe.
The Florida Straits, the Rio Grande, the English Channel. Doesn’t matter much does it? Where there’s a will after all…
I guess it’s the way of the World mate.
I’m tilting at windmills eh?
For a lifetime there has been migration from Cuba that has to amaze the observer with the sheer audacity of Cuban “engineering” Almost anything that can float and is available has been made into a boat that either is paddled, or sailed or simply drifts the 90 miles north to Florida. Of course many don’t make it. A few years back a young boy was I think the sole survivor of a trip on an inner tube that deflated and drowned the others. He survived, and the outrage of his being sent back to his father in Cuba was almost violent.
Are Cubans really so much different from other Caribbeans or Mexicans? Because here, if they manage to land, they can stay – if they’re picked up at sea, they have to return. That’s because they’re communists you see and calling them refugees is automatic even when Castro emptied his jails and almost passed out from laughing so hard.
Did Cuban criminals bring crime and drugs and gangs? Probably, but Miami prospered Greatly too Sad to say many second and third generation cuban immigrants still consider themselves Cuban and not Americans and Spanish might be more than a second language in parts of that city. But As it is elswhere – like New York immigration has enriched life even if we get Russian Mafia types controlling parts of Long Island. Every wave of the immigrants who made us a great nation has been vilified with the same stupid stereotypes yet we never learn. Wanna know why California has a huge economy? New York, Boston, etc/ Immigration. As immigration has waned in Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit – so has the economy.
First we trashed the Irish for bringing crime – their children became cops and their children became Senators and presidents. It’s still happening.