Illegal immigration - thread no. 101

No reason why properly safe routes with effective pre-screening of applicants would open floodgates.

As I've already said it's legal arrivals who make up the vast majority in the current system.

I think there should be a safe way for people like them to get here. Put the smugglers out of business. The money they take off people could be used by those people to start a decent life.

I think that once they get here they should be allowed to work. As soon as they've been established and identified.
Otherwise they will just get sucked into the black market or go missing. They shouldn't be allowed benefits until they've worked for five years or something.
The system now is just torturous as they keep them in these awful places in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do, no education etc. they end up going crazy.

I'm not bothered whether people agree with me or not. My view is that stopping irregular arrivals is best managed by having regular routes.

In reality, for all the hoo hah, the number coming via small boats are a drop in the ocean.

Around 40,000/year while 800,000 come in on visas to work, study and join family.

Rishi Sunak now admits the focus on 'Stop the Boats' was mistaken.

Open routes won’t solve the problem - there are many more people who want to come than we have capacity for. It’s very sad but we can’t keep adding the equivalent of the population of Cardiff every year.

The way to stop crossings is to change what makes us a good prospect for migrants on entry.

No benefits, housing or free healthcare for 10 years should be a good start. No hotels, temp accomodation, years of paperwork. Come here legally or don't come at all.

Guest status for ten years that if you commit crime you are immediately removed.

Other countries manage to stem it via harder outcomes for those who do still take a chance. We are too attractive to them with everything available.

When the NHS and other public services are struggling due to health tourism and interpreter costs, not to mention illnesses due to life style choices, we need to do more. The reason they pay smugglers is because we are seen as a land of milk and honey. If we make ourselves hostile financially then watch numbers fall

I think open safe routes for people.

@MyNameIsX , I wish there was some way of stopping these vermin’s vile business. They really are the lowest of the low. Thanks for the information.

The way to get rid of people smugglers is to provided legal routes.

And?