9/25/2023 0 Comments Dispatches from elsewhere uk![]() “Because France is not a country where anyone would argue it is not safe in any way whatsoever …” “Why have you not sought asylum in the first safe country that you arrived in?” Javid demanded. ![]() Javid told Sky News, “Our job here is to make sure this doesn’t turn into a new route for ever-increased illegal migration, so I want to stop it now as much as I possibly can.” He railed against the “illegal” migrants for not seeking asylum in “safe” France. On the grounds that 80 percent of crossings in 2018 had been made in the last three months, he declared a “major incident.” Javid was forced to break off his South African safari holiday (£840 a night) to return to Britain. However, increased pressure came from Conservative MPs and the media, which repeatedly hyped up a looming “migrant crisis.” Rupert Murdoch’s Sun demanded, “We must stem the tide of migrant boats crossing the Channel.” More than 65 million people are refugees and 15 million are internally displaced.Īnd yet a filthy right-wing anti-immigration campaign is being manufactured around the minuscule number of desperate souls-539 in total-who tried to cross the Channel in 2018.Īt first Javid and his Home Office officials were reluctant to send in patrol ships, claiming that the prospect of being rescued would encourage more refugees to cross. Sixteen years of the “war on terror”-the pretext for a renewal of colonialist war and plunder-have produced the greatest migration crisis since World War II. The sight of destitute men, women and children being sent back to France, or rounded up on English beaches, is a heart-rending echo of the terrible tragedy that has befallen millions in the Middle East and elsewhere. Javid declared that “covert” action would be taken in France to disrupt people-smuggling gangs. These will join a cutter and two smaller coastal patrol vessels already in the area. The naval patrol ship HMS Mersey has been deployed to assist two Border Force cutters that were sent earlier this week by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. ![]() The Channel is one of the world’s busiest sea lanes. The UK Conservative government is dispatching the Royal Navy to the English Channel to stop refugees and asylum seekers attempting to make the hazardous 21-mile (35-kilometre) crossing from France in small boats and dinghies. ![]()
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