This whole illegal migrants in boats "crisis" is pure deflection and is designed to pander to the prejudices of the xenophobic, Brexit voting minority and so remove the focus from the far more important problems we face at the moment. We, as a country, take fewer asylum seekers per capita than our European neighbours so have little grounds to complain.
In fact, the deflection also stosp people asking why after 11 years in power, we see:
Record migrants cross Channel but numbers are dwarfed by unauthorised people in UK
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Sky News has analysed figures on irregular migrants and found those who overstay their visas make up the highest proportion - many more than people arriving on boats.
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This all reminds me of this meme:
