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Majority of illegal migrants enter UK via Heathrow on a visa, not on a lorry

Majority of illegal migrants enter UK via Heathrow on a visa, not on a lorry

 

 

The shocking television footage of desperate asylum seekers and others trying to jump on the slow-moving, queueing lorries on the approach roads at Calais were a sharp reminder of the scenes 15 years ago when the tabloids, daily in the grip of invasion panic, complained of “illegals flooding Calais” in their efforts to come to “soft-touch Britain”.

In fact, the migrants are just one element in the chaos created by striking French port workers that will fade once Calais gets back to normal. The home secretary reassured MPs that contingency plans had kicked in to ensure that there had been no mass break-in to Britain.

The numbers of those trying to cross the Channel from Calais fluctuate according to the international situation, and with the largest refugee crisis since the second world war currently playing itself out across the Mediterranean, in north Africa and in the Middle East, it is not surprising that more than a few thousand have gathered in the port.

Millions have already been spent on building bigger fences at Calais to ensure that the port does not become a back door, or indeed a front door, for illegal entrants into Britain.

But the truth is that the vast majority of illegal migrants in Britain are not smuggled across the Channel in the back of a lorry, but enter Britain perfectly legally through the front door on a plane through Heathrow on a visa. If you want to tackle the problem of illegal immigration, then better to tackle those overstayers than the few thousand who might make it across the Channel each year.




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