I think this is more about publicity than finding a proper answer
I watch the news every day with a combination of disappointment, anger, disgust and concern in relation to how both legal and illegal immigration is going in the UK. I’ll be the first to admit that controlled legal immigration into the UK can only be a positive thing for everyone but the key word has to be controlled.
I’ll also say that I am proud that the UK can offer safety and asylum to vulnerable victims of persecution from around the world but again, this needs to be controlled.
What I’m not happy about are the thousands of immigrants entering this country illegally every day, 365 days a year and once in this country they disappear into the black/illegal economy of organised crime. I guess that’s because they have to do that or the want to they do that. Either way they do nothing to make the UK a better place and I suspect many of them are hiding from a criminal past that is invisible to UK law enforcement so we have no idea of what risk if any they pose to us.
It’s this growing and long term element of uncontrolled immigration that so needs to be stopped. But it seems that successive government after government over decades has failed to read the warning signs and do anything that will make a real difference.
Now I think it’s simply to late to fix the problem.
Even this week the British and French leaders have stood up and declared with great fanfare a new plan to swap up to 20 illegal immigrants every week with families of another 20 illegal immigrants every week.
(a) what difference does it make if they are individual illegal immigrants or related to illegal immigrants already in the UK? None what so ever!
(b) 20 in and 20 out doesn't change or reduce the overall numbers coming in so is this just another example of leaders and governments trying to blind us with numbers hoping that we won’t see the truth?
(c) if high hundreds and even thousands are coming into the UK every week, dealing with groups of up to 20 a week is like pissing into the ocean. It ain’t going to make a blind bit of difference.
This is a problem that has game on for decades and in so many ways is now beyond solving, fixing or even improving and I fear it will only get worst because governments don’t really want to address or fix the issues because they know it will not be a nice process or vote winner.