Where do the people from the dinghies go?

[FreyaFromTheFens]

When they jump off the boat where do they go? Have they been given prior instructions of the direction to head or do they just run anywhere and what then? Hide out for a while?

No one in authority is there to direct them to processing buildings are they?

I just can't imagine the numbers of them that are getting here each month all having somewhere to go straight away. If you live where this happens what's it like and do you feel safe?

Exactly, as I said before, I’m sure that in some part of the world an illiterate kid helped hold a tray or cleaned up at their local hospital and now they are here working in the NHS as a porter which is absolutely fine.

I don’t know why the other poster just didn’t tell that story Instead of embellishing it to sound like a ‘skilled surgeon’ was being wasted and the rest of us are ignorant and close minded for not realising this.

and then flounced because they cannot defend their own remarks.

92% of people crossing by boat claim asylum. 86% of them are granted leave to remain (usually that's simply accepting their asylum application.)

8% of them do not claim asylum - 3860 in 2023. This is a tiny fraction of the undocumented immigrant population which is estimated between 500,000 and 1,000,000, including many children born in the UK.

Total gross immigration into the UK is 1m a year, net, 672000. If you want to reduce immigation stopping asylum seekers is an expensive, cruel and ineffective way of doing things.

The presence of immigrants in an area is correlated with a modest decrease in crime. The presence of asylum seekers has a very small effect on property crime - mainly because their income is so low.

UK policies to deter asylum seekers have very little effect.

Asylum seekers get basic accommodation, food and £1.25 a day. They are not allowed to work.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/people-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/