The only thing that will ever stop ‘illegal’ immigration to the UK or anywhere else is world peace, stability and prosperity for all.
What is almost always ignored in media reports, and right now even with the BBC, is the many desperate situations that people are trying to escape and the reasons for people wanting to leave their home country in the first place. Until you fix those reasons, there will always be people looking to other countries for safety and opportunity. But tabloids want you to believe these people are all liars and criminals.
Do you think if people had the same safety and opportunities for themselves and their families as we do here they would be risking their lives travelling thousands of miles to get here?
If the west would stop cutting aid and starting wars and abandoning countries with no exit plan and zero fucks and then do their very best to stop people who fought for them and are now massively at risk of being killed, coming to the UK legally, then we might stand a chance of stopping or reducing asylum claims.
But no one wants to hear that side. All most people see are numbers (and the tabloids love to shock you with numbers). Not the people.
Do you think if you were born in Syria or Afghanistan or Sudan you would stay put with your children and just accept your fate?
So we either become an even worse version of ourselves and send war ships into the channel and lump all foreigners together as leeches or rapists or we look at the role our own governments and ones like ours have had in creating a situation that’s impossible to fix.