Building better camps will stem flow of migrants
Your front-page story last week about how a Syrian migrant was smuggled into Britain on a Ryanair flight using a bogus passport issued by a group of political extremists showed alarming lapses in security. But it also raised questions over what we should be doing about the mass of people desperate to come to this country.
The answer lies beyond our shores. I suggest we make sure there are better camps for refugees from places such as Syria, where they can reside until such time as it is safe for them to return to their country, which they can then start rebuilding.
If culturally similar countries to Syria, such as Saudi Arabia and UAE, are unwilling to accept migrants into their towns and cities in sufficient numbers, then this is what will have to happen.
No Borders – the group that brought the Syrian migrant to the UK – thinks that there should be completely free movement of people. And in some circles it has become fashionable to say you would welcome refuges into your home. Labour MP Yvette Cooper and ‘virtue signaller’ Bob Geldof have both done this but, as far as I can see, none of these pledges has been honoured.
You only have to look at the success of the far-Right movement in Germany in reaction to mass immigration to see that a world without borders doesn’t work. It creates hotbeds of fundamentalism on both sides. J. Bell, London With the latest revelation that migrants are now getting to Britain via budget airlines – so soon after evidence of how useless our maritime border security is – we really must come to the conclusion that this Government is utterly pathetic when it comes to keeping out migrants. Emma Adam, Davyhulme, Manchester What busy lives middle-class, Leftwing anarchists live. Not content with destroying the Labour Party, stoking up violence in the Calais Jungle, defacing the occasional war memorial, bringing our airports to a standstill and infiltrating the British Medical Association and risking patients’ lives, they are now smuggling migrants into the UK. It’s all an attempt to get by subversion and violent protest what they have dismally failed to achieve through the ballot box.
Roy Daniels, Luton So Carey Mulligan, Jeremy Corbyn and thousands of others want our country to accept many more thousands of refugees. Ordinary people would be more accepting when these ‘do-gooders’ open their pockets and homes and put their money where their mouths are, instead of expecting everybody else to pay.
Michael Cook, Poole, Dorset