Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Migration to hit nearly 250,000 a year by 2026?" video.

  1. As someone once said, if liberals won’t enforce borders, fascists will. The vast majority of people I’m aware of, including myself, have no issue with controlled, legal immigration. Where the issue becomes problematic for many, again including myself, is when there appears to be absolutely no control over the influx of potentially illegal immigrants, which is what we have seen over the past 5 years with the Channel boat crossings, with 764 in 2018, 1,900 in 2019, 8,404 in 2020, 28,526 in 2021, 45,756 in 2022 and on this trajectory, we could see 70,000 this year. Of course, not all these people will be illegal economic migrants, as a proportion will be genuine refugees and asylum seekers. However, this notwithstanding, the immigration issue, as it stands, appears utterly chaotic and out of control and is categorically no different than having a random individual (illegal migrant) breaking into your house and demanding they stay, and you have no real way of evicting them. Of course, if that individual were desperate and genuinely fearing for their life and general safety (asylum seeker), most people would take pity and provide support, but even then this has to be done in a controlled manner. Whether one likes it or not, in the world as we have established it these past few centuries, borders matter. Sovereign territories, like sovereign householders, should absolutely have the right to refuse entry to illegal entrants. For example, for the life of me I cannot understand why we are accepting of so many people from an intrinsically safe European country like Albania. If you’re a genuine refugee, legality and basic humanity tells us these people should be humanely processed and if in fear of their lives, granted asylum. However, with illegal economic migrants, it’s also in their interest to claim refugee status: in other words, a key component of going some way to resolving this issue is to hire more staff to process the applications. Another component would be to go to source, that is to the gangs organising all this. There should be much greater emphasis placed on breaking up these networks . Imo, giving the French £500 million quid is throwing good money after bad. Letting migrants leave French shores is so many fewer migrants France itself has to deal with, so it’s folly to assume they are going to be on the case in this regard. Sending illegal migrants elsewhere is also invidious. Can you imagine the uproar there would be if it were the other way, and if Rwanda, for example, chose to send tens of thousands of its illegal migrants to the UK? There would be rioting in the streets. Migration is not going to go away. Given this, there should be binding agreements between European nations whereby they intake mutually-agreed quotas. The whole issue is a tangled web. One final thing: we need to scotch this fallacy that the UK takes more than its fair share of refugees. In 2021 there were 148,200 asylum applications in Germany, 103,800 applications in France, 62,100 in Spain, 43,900 in Italy and 37,562 in the UK.
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