There are better ways to stop small boats crossing the English Channel
by the coastguard. On the shore, people were waiting with blankets. Nine months on, things are now looking pretty bleak for the 21-year-old Iranian. Living in an overcrowded hotel in Carlisle, he is unable to work or continue his education . He has no idea how his asylum application—made on the grounds that as a Christian in Iran he was threatened with persecution—is progressing.
That is still lower than the number of claims lodged in either France or Germany. It represents only a fraction of the overall number of immigrants that entered Britain in 2022. But small boats are a bigger problem than the numbers suggest. This is partly because of humanitarian concerns: in recent years dozens of migrants have died in the channel. But it is also because such a visible manifestation of the government’s inability to control its borders has become a big political headache.
which would allow asylum-seekers to travel by ferry and lodge claims on arrival—is no such thing. Britain would be overwhelmed by applicants, many of them entirely deserving of protection. But Mr Sunak’s legislation is likely to end in disappointment. The new laws will probably be designed to make it easier to deport asylum-seekers, perhaps before their claims have been processed, back to their home countries or to a third country like Rwanda. The first option would in many cases be illegal; a recent agreement withto return migrants there could not be replicated with countries that are considered unsafe without breaching international law.
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