So far this year, over 9,000 illegal migrants have successfully reached Great Britain by crossing the Channel in rubber dinghies launched from France. The relative impotence on the part of either the British or French government to stem the tide is encouraging more every day. In a bizarre, 21st-century reversal of WWII’s D-Day, at least two thousand migrants have gathered on the beaches of northern France, preparing to make the 21-mile trip across to Britain.
Nigel Farage, former Brexit leader, this week charged that, under Home Secretary Priti Patel, “a country that voted to take back control of its borders has completely and hopelessly lost control of its borders.”
The migrants, who tend to be young men from the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere in the third world, are being shepherded through the process by organized Albanian gangs of smugglers, who brazenly advertise their services on social media and mock the hapless efforts of the governments involved to do anything about it.
The huge fees charged by the smugglers of around £20,000 ($27,765) per person suggest that the migrants are not the poor refugees they often pretend to be. Farage says, “Very few of those that are coming would ever actually qualify” for refugee status.
Farage says he expects that next year, the numbers will be worse.
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