Calais migrant crisis: UK police 'should help'

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Calais migrant crisis: UK police 'should help'

I suppose if the French are not up to the job we should help them out - like in the world wars.

Better still, lets invade. We could at least take Calais. We used to own it on and off.

[TykeMerc]

Send police, arrest the illegals and deport them back to their points of origin, there are plenty of language experts that can make a good enough guess at the ones that refuse to say where.

If they claim asylum send them to the country they entered the EU to handle that.

[vetran]

Send police, arrest the illegals and deport them back to their points of origin, there are plenty of language experts that can make a good enough guess at the ones that refuse to say where.

If they claim asylum send them to the country they entered the EU to handle that.

the origin country won't accept them without paperwork which they burn once they get to Europe.

If they send them back to Italy which seems to be the main entry point they will be back in Calais in a few months.

I was in Calais the other day and bands of young black men were roaming the scrub land being pursued by vans of french police. Its all a bit of a mess.

[d000hg]

BBC News - Calais migrant crisis: UK police 'should help'

I suppose if the French are not up to the job we should help them out - like in the world wars.

Better still, lets invade. We could at least take Calais. We used to own it on and off.

The headline I saw was "police should be sent to France" which seemed rather cruel.

[The Spartan]

Send police, arrest the illegals and deport them back to their points of origin, there are plenty of language experts that can make a good enough guess at the ones that refuse to say where.

If they claim asylum send them to the country they entered the EU to handle that.

This should be the case but aren't there huge amount of migrants who've made it to UK who are trying to claim asylum, why bother trying to process them they should be shipped over to Europe as it's more than likely they came through there to get to the UK.

[d000hg]

Send police, arrest the illegals and deport them back to their points of origin.

What about all the migrants who are EU citizens? Aren't they, by definition, legal - and the bulk of the 'problem'?

[VectraMan]

Send police, arrest the illegals and deport them back to their points of origin, there are plenty of language experts that can make a good enough guess at the ones that refuse to say where.

How much is it going to cost to send hundreds of thousands of people back to Africa/Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria/wherever? It'd be cheaper just to let them in and give them all benefits.

You've got to feel a bit sorry for the people of Calais. It's not their fault they happen to be the closest point to England, and it's a little unfair that they're stuck with policing our border.

I saw an immigrant walking up the M20 a couple of weeks back after leaving the Channel Tunnel. Didn't see any on the French side though; from what you read in the Daily Mail I was expecting it to be like a football match with thousands of them rushing the barriers.

[DodgyAgent]

What about all the migrants who are EU citizens? Aren't they, by definition, legal - and the bulk of the 'problem'?

The EU migrants are not the problem if you read the telegraph today. the problem is with non EU migrants.

[VectraMan]

What about all the migrants who are EU citizens? Aren't they, by definition, legal - and the bulk of the 'problem'?

Legal immigrants (only about a third of them are from the EU) are not the ones trying to hide in the back of lorries or living in cardboard boxes in Sangatte.

[darmstadt]

If they claim asylum send them to the country they entered the EU to handle that.

Which is, I believe EU law:

The Dublin Regulation is a core principle for handling asylum claims in the EU. It says responsibility for examining the claim lies primarily with the member state which played the greatest part in the applicant's entry or residence in the EU. Often that is the first EU country that the migrant reached - but not always, as in many cases migrants want to be reunited with family members, for example in the UK or the Netherlands.


There are tensions in the EU over the Dublin Regulation - Greece complained that it was inundated with applications, as so many migrants arrived in Greece first. Finland and Germany are among several countries that have stopped sending migrants back to Greece.


The EU also has the Eurodac system - a common database of asylum seekers' fingerprints, which can be accessed under strict controls. Police use it to intercept false or multiple claims.


In terms of asylum claims, Syrians again topped the EU list in 2013. There were 46,960 Syrian applicants, Russians were in second place with 35,140 applicants, and third were Afghans (21,320 applicants).


There were 435,760 asylum claims in the EU in 2013 - a 30% rise on 2012.


At the end of 2013, more than 352,000 were awaiting a decision on their asylum application.


Germany had the highest number of asylum claims - a quarter of the total.


In 2013 about one-third of asylum claims in the EU were successful. The highest recognition rates were for Syrians, Eritreans and stateless refugees.

The EU migrants are not the problem if you read the telegraph today. the problem is with non EU migrants.

Or the Guardian today: UK gains £20bn from European migrants, UCL economists reveal | UK news | The Guardian