Securing Frontier Of Our Welcoming Nation Is Essential

‘The Borders Bill must not be watered down by faint hearts’

- Tim Newark

With At least 430 illegal migrants crossing the English Channel to arrive in the UK in just one day this week – a new daily record – it is clear that action must be taken sooner rather than later. The day before, 241 migrants landed on our shores, making nearly 8,000 illegal arrivals this year. Almost all of them are economic migrants paying people-smuggling gangsters thousands of pounds to jump the queue of immigration to this country.

Yesterday, a French warship escorted 13 migrants in an overcrowded dinghy into British waters to hand them over to a TV crew recording the process.

“Illegal crossings so far this year are now nearly 11 times the number recorded by this point in 2019,” says Dr Ben Greening, executive director of Migration Watch UK. “This is not good enough and the public is fed up to the teeth with this debacle.”

Home Secretary Priti Patel has told the Express that she finds this totally unacceptable. “The British people have simply had enough of illegal migration and the abuse of our asylum system,” she says.

But we’ve heard this all many times before and still, the little boats keep coming. Words are not enough to stem the growing tide. Ms. Patel’s Borders Bill was back in Parliament yesterday for its second reading. Many of its proposals are sound and send out a strong message.