Voters will punish the Government for not acting on the migrant crisis
sir – The Government has had ample time to solve the problem of the cross-channel illegal-immigrant business. The hot air must end and the Government must demonstrate that it is not being outwitted by the rules, the French, people-smugglers or Leftwing lawyers. This demonstration needs to come very soon or the Conservatives can kiss goodbye to their parliamentary majority.
Mick Ferrie
Mawnan Smith, Cornwall
sir – British taxpayers have little knowledge of the induction process for the vast numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the Channel. Where are they all accommodated? What sort of identity papers are they supplied with? How much money are they given? Are they immediately vaccinated against Covid? Surely we have a right to know. Cameron Morice
Reading, Berkshire
sir – The attraction of Britain to migrants is plain. The language makes life easier, free health care, housing, benefits and very little chance of being returned, even if asylum is refused, provide a great incentive to those making the crossing.
If the Government were to make it clear, in legislation, that those crossing the Channel illegally would get neither settled status nor asylum, it would make the challenge less attractive.
Regardless of where the migrants started, they have travelled from France, a safe country. A quick return would make their expedition futile. Rather than wasting £54 million to rely on the French to police this, the money could be spent on a processing centre in France, where identified, checked and verified people wishing to enter the UK can be assessed, and, if successful, brought safely over here. Clifford Baxter
Wareham, Dorset
sir – It is a political fact that governments cannot legislate to change human nature. There is turmoil and violence all over the world, and many people abandon their homelands to find a place of safety
Politicians promise to curtail the flow of asylum seekers into Britain, but successive home secretaries have found this to be unachievable. The only hope is containment by improved screening.
The authorities should admit that the problem can never be solved. John Catchpole
Beverley, East Yorkshire
sir – The Tory Party will not resolve the migration problem unless it can devise some legal means of differentiating between, and dealing with, economic migrants and true refugees.
Adrian Fyles
Blackburn, Lancashire
sir – If Emad al-swealmeen, the Liverpool bomber, had his request for asylum turned down seven years ago, why was he still living in Britain? Is anyone ever deported?
Lesley Snell