What a perfect headline this would make for the Daily Mail? As we know immigrants are the source of most ills in this country...why not blame them for Covid 19 too? Talk about pandering to base prejudices...If the illegal immigrants were being brought ashore and then let lose in the community, that would be one thing...Is there any evidence that this is actually what is happening?
As you know, I'm dead against illegal migrants leaving a perfectly safe country at the best of times, but when we're suffering from a pandemic? It's annoying beyond belief and given how we're all enduring a lockdown, it's utterly reckless. We have to stop them making the journey in the first place. Sadly despite using drones and aircraft it's seemingly impossible to detect all these boats as they leave shore.
I would hope the migrants undergo a forced quarantine for a fortnight, but as they generally get released into the community I'm not getting my hopes up.
The majority of boats are intercepted in the Channel by Border Force and taken to the Port of Dover, where Home Office staff begin screening migrants in a shipping container.
From there, it is likely they will be held at the Kent Intake Unit, near the car ferry terminal, where they can make an asylum claim and have an initial interview before being released.
Adults will be sent to hostel-style accommodation across the country, paid for by the government and provided by private contractors.
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"Some may well win their appeals and the rest of them are just stuck in the country in limbo," he said.
Unable to work legally, many of these failed asylum seekers then depend on charity handouts and "sofa surf" or are "essentially forced to work in the black market economy," he added.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50813246
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