Infiltrating people smuggling gangs.
British Special Forces are poised to go to Calais to help French police track down the crime gangs sending migrants across the Channel.
The UK could offer up a team of around 30 elite troops from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) to help authorities in France tackle the ongoing crisis, according to The Mirror.
Right. So announcing this top secret plan in national newspapers is the thing to do, right? Who’s running this show, Baldrick?
The lack of ability to organise a recreational event in a hop-based alcohol production facility is astonishing.
And as an afterthought- what percentage of the UK’s “special forces” are Middle-eastern and capable of blending into migrant communities?
I dunno. If you announced it and didn’t bother to send anybody, just put some folks in the camps doing the “J’accuse” bit then paranoia alone might do the work. Sure, they’ll probably end up killing some of each other, but that also works.
Alternately, just get some clueless Iraqi that doesn’t stand a chance at an asylum claim to go up the line to the camps at Calais and then rat out the smugglers. If he gets murdered, then tough shit, no loss, but if he gets to UK then the UK Gov gives a nod-and-a-wink to their asylum claim.
You’re going to get some level of asylum claimants anyway, so we might as well use it to our advantage to dial down the level of illegal channel crossers.
Provided you do this in addition to making a statutory requirement that those crossing the channel (from the safe haven country of France) are automatically rejected.
Just sink a few boats – preferably within swimming distance of the French shore
They’d soon get the message.
I’m surprised that some freelancers with a large motorboat that is fast enough to overtake the dinghy hasn’t gone out and deliberately run a few down. Or, pulled alongside the illegal immigrant boat and blasted the hull and occupants with a shotgun (impossible to match the projectiles to a specific weapon – not that matching a bullet and cartridge case to a rifled barrel is as easy as the TV shows make out).
Not that I would ever suggest that anyone “takes the law into their own hands” (which beggars the question, in whose hands is the law?).
I tire of saying the same thing, but here goes….I’m trying to cover all the bases but Cherie and her friends will do all they can to subvert all of this, so if you have any improvements, please let me know:
‘We will consider requests for asylum by those who have entered the UK through the legitimate channels and these MAY be granted in accordance with UK law. Any negative decision will not be open to appeal.
If you enter the UK via non legal means you will NEVER be given leave to remain. You will NEVER be eligible to receive any welfare benefits in the UK. Upon detection, you WILL be deported back to your country of origin. If you do not disclose your ‘country of origin’ we will deport you to a country of our choice. You may be allowed access to emergency, short term health care to facilitate your removal but will then be deported as above. No exceptions’.
This sounds a good basis for any sensible policy – after all, we are all supposed to obey ‘the law’, or be locked up! Any not prepared to do so, even before entry, should be rejected without question.