Illegal migration

sir – Suzanne Moore (Comment, November 8) misses the point on migration: no one objects to a fair, needs-based system. We are all highly aware of the contribution immigrants have made throughout our history, and continue to make to our society.

However, many do object to those who pay smugglers to bring them across the Channel from a safe country. Most are young, single men, a large percentage of whom will apparently be joining Britain’s flourishing drug trade. We don’t have the facilities to house and feed them, or offer health care. Eve Wilson

Hill Head, Hampshire