Quakkerillo
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Too many people are trying to enter the UK illegally via Calais. These often came in via Italy, Greece, and/or Hungary/Slovenia. French police could send these people back there, after having been stopped. But this is a costly process, and they need to find out who these people are, where they're from, and where/how they entered the EU/Schengen. And after sending back, these countries just let them go free, as they're understaffed, and overwhelmed by the amount of immigrants, while EU support is lacking.
The UK is behaving like it's a French problem, whereas the UK insists on having their customs and border control on French soil, whilst being understaffed. Due to this, every night some immigrants manage to slip through, hidden in a lorry. These success stories attract more new immigrants who want to try.
Seeing the economical cost of this all going wrong, I'd say it'd be sensible for the UK to invest more. If they were able to do 100% checks on every lorry, with a higher speed than now, the amount of successful immigrants would drop to near-zero. That won't help the mood in Calais, and will deter them from trying in the longer term.
Blame the French for all you want, but they don't want those people either. They cause enough issues around Calais for the locals as is. But they can not be sent back without costing a huge amount of manpower and money, which they don't just have lying around for this. And it'd just continue over-and-over again.
The only way to stop this, is making the chance of success 0%. And that, that is the UK responsibility, for they run the border lorry checks.
The UK is behaving like it's a French problem, whereas the UK insists on having their customs and border control on French soil, whilst being understaffed. Due to this, every night some immigrants manage to slip through, hidden in a lorry. These success stories attract more new immigrants who want to try.
Seeing the economical cost of this all going wrong, I'd say it'd be sensible for the UK to invest more. If they were able to do 100% checks on every lorry, with a higher speed than now, the amount of successful immigrants would drop to near-zero. That won't help the mood in Calais, and will deter them from trying in the longer term.
Blame the French for all you want, but they don't want those people either. They cause enough issues around Calais for the locals as is. But they can not be sent back without costing a huge amount of manpower and money, which they don't just have lying around for this. And it'd just continue over-and-over again.
The only way to stop this, is making the chance of success 0%. And that, that is the UK responsibility, for they run the border lorry checks.