More than 45,000 small-boat migrants crossed the English Channel last year, exposing Britain’s inability to control its borders
boats” is one of Rishi Sunak’s five promises for 2023. . That figure was expected to grow this year. Mr Sunak and Suella Braverman, the home secretary, have now come up with a plan. New legislation unveiled on March 7th would render inadmissible asylum claims by those who travel across the English Channel on flimsy dinghies. Instead, they would almost all be detained and deported, never to return.
The plan has myriad practical flaws, too. Britain has no capacity to hold large numbers of detained migrants. The government’s idea is to deter others from making the journey, thus keeping the numbers locked up and deported manageable. But it is far from clear that the policy would have this effect. Or if it did, how long it would take and how many migrants Britain would first have to detain.
It seems likely, then, that Britain will continue to process the claims of those who come from countries to which they cannot be returned. This would echo an earlier failure to tackle the problem. Under rules introduced in 2022 migrants who arrived in Britain having passed through other safe countries without claiming asylum are classed as “inadmissible”.
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