Immigration Watch International (2): Over 100 migrants arrive in the UK on little boats after a spell of good weather bringing the total number of arrivals for the year to a record 17,284

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Over 100 migrants arrive in the UK on little boats after a spell of good weather bringing the total number of arrivals for the year to a record 17,284

Crammed into a dinghy somewhere in the middle of the Channel, a child sucks on a dummy.

Nearby in the overcrowded migrant boat, a man blows into a toy rubber ring in an apparent bid to use the flimsy device as a rudimentary life jacket.

These startling images were captured by drone today as the latest migrant vessels made their way from France to the UK.

The photographs, showing at least 60 people onboard the dinghy, viscerally illustrate how evil people trafficking gangs dispatch boats with no regard for human life.

Dozens of migrants straddled the edge of the inflatable vessel, with others cowered in the deck well.

Several figures at the stern covered their faces with hoods, potentially because the Home Office is more likely to lay immigration crime charges against anyone who takes the tiller of a migrant boat.

The Mail revealed last month how we found wrappings from 17 children's inflatable toy rings on the sands at Gravelines beach, near Calais.

Migrants used them in a feeble attempt at protecting themselves during the dangerous 21-mile crossing of the world's busiest shipping lane.

Home Office data published today showed there were 114 small boat arrivals on Monday, following 267 over the weekend.

It means 3,710 migrants have reached Britain since Labour came to power, not including today's unconfirmed number of arrivals.

The total since the beginning of the year has now reached 17,284, up 15 per cent on the same point last year.

One of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's first actions in office was to scrap the Conservatives' Rwanda asylum scheme, which was designed to remove irregular migrants to the east African nation.

Tory ministers insisted the scheme would have helped deter migrants from making the Channel crossing in the first place.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13715743/Over-100-migrants-arrive-UK-little-boats-spell-good-weather-bringing-total-number-arrivals-year-record-17-284.html

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Over 100 migrants arrive in the UK on little boats after a spell of good weather bringing the total number of arrivals for the year to a record 17,284

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