Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Asylum Bill: Rishi Sunak's plan to ‘detain and remove’ small boat migrants" video.
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"We asked economic migrants trying to abuse the system by seeking asylum today whether a proposed bill which hasn't even been presented in the house, let alone become law and resolved any potential legal challenges and thus has no possibility to impact them in any way; will effect their decision to travel today. We took what they said as evidence that a proposed bill will not work".
The absolute absurdity of asking migrants repeatedly throughout the episode whether something that isn't going to impact them because it doesn't exist yet would stop them, is farcical. Ask migrants AFTER it's become law, AFTER it's been enforced and they start seeing the consequences of those decisions.
Of course the Rwanda policy didn't spook the Afghan you were talking to. It isn't an enforceable policy right now and look, he's in the UK. He has what he was after, there was no risk involved he knew he was never in danger of going to Rwanda.
This kind of legislation ONLY works if it's enforced adequately. You have to catch greater than 90% of all boats, and those people have to ALL be deported.
The studio presenter wants there to be some magic solution, but this is reality not a dream. People stop behaviour when the outcomes cease to be what they desire them to be.
Deporting economic migrants en masse works. Look at Australia. 10 years, no boats because of these kinds of policies.
Also, wtf was the shadow immigration minister talking about? How do you clear a backlog FIRST if you haven't stemmed the flow of new applications? It's like trying to build a town in a river before you build a dam. I understand her job is to pretend her brand of nonsense is somehow different from the other brand of the same nonsense whilst saying all the same things, but fix the backlog before stem the flow makes no sense whatsoever.
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