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Originally Posted by ianch99

I take your point about the illegal(?) disposal of identity documents making it harder to be processed but as to the exact numbers involved, that remains to be proven.

However, this whole project is not really about if those chosen have or have not documents when they get off their boats, it is, as Chris alluded to, an affront to our sense of morality & duty of care as a nation. We are just better than this.

It's more complex than that. Morality cuts in more than one way. It seems immoral to me that illegal migration causes the Guvmin to spend millions (c. £5m/day --> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2006820.html ) when poor citizens can't afford to buy food or travel to their medical appointments and so on.

The Guvmin's duty to the UK people also includes knowing who is entering our country. These fit young men are economic migrants (at least mainly) - and where did they get the money to pay the traffickers? What's going on there?