We have recently been presented with a plan to deal with the huge numbers of illegal immigrants coming over in small dinghies across the English Channel from France. Boris Johnson has made the case and Priti Patel the Home Secretary has said they will be sent to a processing centre in Rwanda, East Africa. Apparently Priti Patel signed a memorandum with Rwanda last week and will pay the country £120 million. In the meantime, the Royal Navy will be tasked with policing the English Channel, to apprehend the small boats.
Naturally all the woke liberals are up in arms at the idea, including charities, human rights lawyers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Labour MPs and of course peers in the House of Lords, who have been blocking the Nationalities and Borders Bill as it passes through the Upper Chamber. This is due to be heard again on 26th April. Anyone who wants to see the nit-picking going on, can see it here.
Ideally, all illegal immigrants coming into Britain could be potentially deported on the grounds that they cannot produce their identity documents or passports, (which they have been advised to throw into the sea by people traffickers who they paid to help them across the Channel).
Imagine if a person arrived at a British airport, or any airport, without an identity document or passport? What would happen? They would not be allowed to enter the country. So the same rule should apply and it would quickly solve the current problem.
Since at least the year 2000, Britain has been paying France to deal with this mass migration across the Channel into Britain but far from it ceasing, the numbers keep growing. It may be that France is also tired of the huge numbers coming into its country and therefore turns a blind eye to those people moving on to England.
When the people of Britain voted in the 2016 Brexit Referendum, many voted to leave the European Union precisely because they felt immigration was becoming a major problem. Now six years later, nothing has been done about it and it is actually getting worse.
America is having the same problem at its Mexican border and Texas Governor, Gregg Abbott was so fed up that he recently forwarded at least four busloads of illegal immigrants to the Capitol in DC. Right now he is considering sending them off to Biden's home state of Delaware!
Of course we all care about genuine refugees, for example from Ukraine, but many of the illegal immigrants coming over are healthy young males with their cell phones and smart clothes, who have managed to find the thousands of pounds necessary to pay the traffickers to get them to Britain. From the footage we see, they do not appear desperate or destitute. Some have genuinely come from war torn countries but the majority are economic migrants looking for a better life that the UK's generous welfare benefit system will give them.
Of course the argument is that immigrants contribute to a country's wealth in many ways. Although that is partly true, the fact is that huge numbers subsist on welfare benefits, draining a country's resources.
Meanwhile, there are millions of British families which are in urgent need right now and are turning to Food Banks. Due to higher bills and food prices many more will become homeless. These people are not being given the help they require because the massive numbers coming in also need to be housed and fed and appear to be given priority.
Britain is a very small country compared to others and we now have a serious shortage of housing due to this influx, which has been going on since at least 1997, when Tony Blair started opening the floodgates. This has pushed up the price of property to an all time high and is totally out of the reach of our young people, many of whom are forced to live with their parents.
When Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister during the 1980s, people forget she was elected due to her stance on curbing immigration. She was so strict, that even if you were a British born wife but married a foreign born husband, he was not allowed to live in Britain!
On 24th April there will be the final runoff vote in the French Election between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Le Pen has made it crystal clear that she believes the French people are tired of showing their hospitality to a never ending number of migrants in France.
Many European countries feel they have done their bit and enough is enough! It is incredibly expensive dealing with so many newcomers. Hungary and Poland for example refuse to take in any at all. European countries are fast losing their cultural identities, with so many nationalities entering their borders. Recently there have been days of rioting in Sweden related to immigration.
We must hope the plan for Rwanda will work and discourage people from coming here via illegal routes such as in dinghies and in the back of lorries, but the flights to Rwanda will be expensive. Perhaps processing people on a relatively uninhabited island nearer to Britain would have been an easier solution.
