OneOfMany wrote: ↑Sun, 9. Feb 20, 12:56
I would like to think that the Brits can take back control and do all they can to discourage the mass imigration they now face. However as their main border is controlled by the French at that end of the tunnel, I fear an open door policy will be enacted now that they have left the eu.
A few questions:
1) How long is that border at the tunnel?
2) How many migrants come through said tunnel? (no seriously, please provide some actual data).
3) How many migrants is the UK
forced by EU legislation to admit per year.
4) How many migrants are admitted from outside the EU (ones we can say "No thank you" to if we wish? Also, why don't we?) and if migration is a problem, why don't we stop them?
5) Just how many illegal migrants do we get? And how do they enter the country (as in, do they arrive illegally in the first place or arrive legally and then abscond). Also, what mode of transportation?
Some links to help you:
Figures for EU vs Non EU migration (as in what we can't vs can control).
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... bruary2019
Net migration (because we need to know how many leave as well as arrive, to get a real figure for what we could control vs couldn't).
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/statis ... statistics
Migrant Crisis with numbers per country taken in for the EU and their origin for the "Migrant crisis"... the UK is absolutely SWAMPED. A wonder we even manage to survive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/key-to ... mmigration
Contains some information about numbers and difficulties with regards to illegal immigration.
But bottom line - in what way does leaving the EU suddenly mean we can stop illegal immigrants into the UK? It's not just a question from myself, I'm pretty sure the Government would be interested to know because... the problem has always been that the EU stops us from "manning the border".Additionally, how the 60k net EU migration is suddenly going to save us when we freely admit the net 220k migration from the rest of the world. Per year. By choice.
Honestly...