Priti Patel plans weekly flights to take Channel migrants back to France, Germany and Italy with 1,000 already on list
PRITI Patel is planning to fly Channel migrants back to France, Germany and Italy on a weekly basis, it can be revealed.
At least 1,000 people are already on the list to be sent back as the Government clamps down on record numbers arriving into Britain.Priti Patel pictured arriving at Downing Street earlier this weekThe Home Secretary plans to fly migrants back to Germany, France and Italy on a weekly basisAround 6,300 migrants have already made the journey to British shores this year, with the Government urging France to “take more urgent and productive action to patrol the French coastline”.
Immigration officials have described the crossings as “thoroughly unacceptable” adding that the Government and Home Secretary are “equally frustrated by the severity of the situation”.: “I can confirm that the Home Secretary is planning weekly returns of small boat migrants to their first safe countries which have been identified as France, Germany and Italy.”Figures from last year show that only 21 people were sent back from Britain to France in 2019.
“There is considerable policy work underway to address where the UK’s immigration and asylum system is being exploited and abused... "As it currently stands, the system is inflexible and rigid, and is open to abuse by both migrants and activist lawyers to frustrate the returns of those who have no right to be here.”
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