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AIBU to be deeply concerned about the sheer number of unchecked undocumented unknown men coming into the UK?

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CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 09:40

This is some dystopian lord of the flies hell. Those poor women. Burned on the boat. Wth. Poor man stabbed to death. Why are the people that did this then going to be roaming free in the UK? Why are they allowed to enter the UK in the first place? Why are gangs not being 'smashed'?

Why won't the government tell us the truth about their crime rates?

AIBU to be deeply concerned about the sheer number of unchecked undocumented unknown men coming into the UK.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2243693/english-channel-small-boat-migrant-dies

Channel chaos as migrant dies, two women burned and one stabbed on same boat

Forty-five of those on board continued towards the UK and were picked up by a British rescue vessel.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2243693/english-channel-small-boat-migrant-dies

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SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 11:45

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 11:39

Yes. Even the French PM suggested this sort of thing.

The French must think we are mad no wonder they do little to help us. The mayor of Calais was on TV stressing these pull factors.

Who are we helping with the current process ? Putin ?the IRG ? Smuggling gangs ?

The vulnerable and weak ?

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 11:45

Carouseloflife · 30/08/2026 11:43

Where would they be deported to if they haven’t any documentation proving their nationality

Perhaps the Rwanda set up, it's been part paid for after all. Shame Starmer cancelled it, the clown.

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Sav34 · 30/08/2026 11:46

Carouseloflife · 30/08/2026 11:43

Where would they be deported to if they haven’t any documentation proving their nationality

We place them in immigration detention till we can verify. This is what the USA does. They also make it an offense and prosecute for destruction of documents

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 11:46

Rwanda as well would have been good

Firetreev · 30/08/2026 11:46

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:40

@Firetreev People on the left realise that issues are much more nuanced.

Nuances tend to go out of the window when you have a migrant hotel or army barracks full of migrants on your doorstep.

My point was about the toxicity of algorithms. Also, why are some of the most anti immigrant and intolerant parts of the UK the places with barely any immigrants. They're generally places with low education levels and high crime levels, but none of the blame for this can be laid at the feet of immigrants. It's not an immigrants fault if you didn't pay attention at school, and your neighbours choose to get involved in crime. It seems to be multicultural and diverse places don't seem to have the same fear of immigrants.

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:46

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:44

France have made it clear they won’t accept them back

So we have to take all their rejects ? Yeah, right.

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:48

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:45

Wherever they came from.
If their own country won't take them back then cut foreign aid to that country, no more visas, no more family reunions until they toe the line.
And if they won't own up to what nationality they are a Guantánamo Bay set up should do just fine with minimum meals and services.

The world is full of people living in appalling conditions but we can't help them all and we can't bring them all here.

I doubt they would own up to where they came from. Where would you set up and fund these camps?

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Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:48

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:46

So we have to take all their rejects ? Yeah, right.

How would you make France take them and stop them trying to get to the UK again?

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:49

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:48

I doubt they would own up to where they came from. Where would you set up and fund these camps?

Not my choice as to placement but Dartmoor Prison would do well after a revamp, as I understand that it's empty.

SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 11:51

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:48

How would you make France take them and stop them trying to get to the UK again?

By all the means mentioned .
A navy man was interviewed on the radio and said it's perfectly possible to collect the people in the boats and get them back to France.

What pressure have we ever put on France over this ?

We just give them more money and of course reduce pull factors here.

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:51

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 11:46

Rwanda as well would have been good

UK Supreme Court didn’t consider Rwanda’s system reliable enough to protect genuine asylum seekers.

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 11:52

Gently OP, you are not going to get much support on here if you keep linking threads from media sources such as daily mail and daily express.

You shouldn’t even be clicking on these ridiculous websites, let alone reading the crap they come out with.

It seems the first one you linked has absolutely no truth to it at all (although I’m sure people do get sunburned).

Perhaps linking from reputable media sources will encourage people to see your POV better.

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:53

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:49

Not my choice as to placement but Dartmoor Prison would do well after a revamp, as I understand that it's empty.

You’d lock them up without them being able to make their claim?

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 11:54

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:49

Not my choice as to placement but Dartmoor Prison would do well after a revamp, as I understand that it's empty.

They would still need to be fed etc though and they’re not allowed to work - which is exactly what’s happening why.

What would be the difference?

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 11:54

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:51

UK Supreme Court didn’t consider Rwanda’s system reliable enough to protect genuine asylum seekers.

Screw the supreme court. Parliament is sovereign and passed legislation deeming Rwanda safe. We could have still gone through and sent them there.

SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 11:55

They should not be able to make any claim by arriving by boat and foisting themselves on us

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:56

SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 11:55

They should not be able to make any claim by arriving by boat and foisting themselves on us

How would you differentiate between genuine and false claims? You can only make a claim when in the UK, not from outside the UK in any other country.

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 11:57

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:48

How would you make France take them and stop them trying to get to the UK again?

We can't make France take them.
(I am rather surprised they aren't trying harder to stop leaving as those poor people who live on the Northern French coast are sick to death of them and the crimes they commit.)
What we can do is stop all the perks they get when they arrive to discourage them from making the crossing.

SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 11:57

@Tiredtaxpayer if Dartmoor Is genuinely empty then it's probably ear marked for our current prison crisis.

Burnham has said they are looking at all options in our current crisis where rapists and people charges with man slaughter were going to get let out early.

It's a bloody crisis in our prisons !

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 11:57

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 11:52

Gently OP, you are not going to get much support on here if you keep linking threads from media sources such as daily mail and daily express.

You shouldn’t even be clicking on these ridiculous websites, let alone reading the crap they come out with.

It seems the first one you linked has absolutely no truth to it at all (although I’m sure people do get sunburned).

Perhaps linking from reputable media sources will encourage people to see your POV better.

Aw do stop with the patronising blurb breezy. Some of these publications are the only ones who tell the truth, we saw that in the TWAW debacle. When the left wing version of the daily mail, the guardian, insisted on referring to raping trans men, as women. For example. You do need to wake up if you are stuck in a mindset of this news source Good that news source Bad. Be more aware. Read around a bit. Take it all in. make your own decisions. try not to be blinded by the limited news sources you read.

ps. wrt to the story ref 2 women being burnt on the boat, and one man being stabbed. For their sake I hope it is not true. We shall see.

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Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:59

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 11:54

Screw the supreme court. Parliament is sovereign and passed legislation deeming Rwanda safe. We could have still gone through and sent them there.

You’d have no independent review of proposed legislation? The Supreme Court was deciding whether the government’s proposed scheme complied with existing UK law and the UK’s legal obligations. It didn’t.

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 12:00

@SoThatwasSummer Burnham has said they are looking at all options in our current crisis where rapists and people charges with man slaughter were going to get let out early

I heard that as well.
I also heard that people are already lobbying their MPs to try and stop this.

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 12:01

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 11:57

Aw do stop with the patronising blurb breezy. Some of these publications are the only ones who tell the truth, we saw that in the TWAW debacle. When the left wing version of the daily mail, the guardian, insisted on referring to raping trans men, as women. For example. You do need to wake up if you are stuck in a mindset of this news source Good that news source Bad. Be more aware. Read around a bit. Take it all in. make your own decisions. try not to be blinded by the limited news sources you read.

ps. wrt to the story ref 2 women being burnt on the boat, and one man being stabbed. For their sake I hope it is not true. We shall see.

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Be more aware. Read around a bit. Take it all in. make your own decisions. try not to be blinded by the limited news sources you read.

How ironic.

You tell others to read around a bit and not be blinded by limited news sources but blindly believed a story (from daily express!!!) because you didn’t bother fact checking it first.

I’m sure people do get sunburnt, I’m not sure why the writer would even mention that - I guess it gets more clicks and money in their pocket.

IcyShark · 30/08/2026 12:02

Absolutely you are not being unreasonable!! When was the last time we saw boat loads of migrant women and children only coming across?
These are middle age, fighting age men coming across apparently fleeing war yet they must be leaving they're women and children behind.
I fear that with all these undocumented men there are so many over here now and so many unaccounted for something will happen in this country from the inside, from right on our very streets. I fear, like many parents for my children's safety and future.
Not to mention the pulling power this country house. Free NHS care, benefits, social housing, school meals and places..... the list is endless.

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