Worse, he appeared to suggest that the UK would discriminate against those who arrived this way to deter others: “We will do everything we can to make sure that you are often not successful because we need to break that link, and to break that link means we can save more lives.” (As lawyers noted, it would be illegal to use decisions to deter others; Mr Javid later said applications would be processed “in the normal way”.)
Or:
In recent days, Javid has also been criticised after he repeatedly referred to people making the Channel crossing as “illegal” migrants, though it is not against the law to seek asylum.
I consider this sort of thing politically scandalous, but nothing seems to scandalise people in politics any more, unless they want to damage Jeremy Corbyn.
I think this is a very good editorial on Javid's most recent nasty bullshit:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/03/the-guardian-view-on-channel-crossings-a-failure-of-humanity-not-controls
Or:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/02/people-crossing-channel-not-genuine-asylum-seekers-javid
I consider this sort of thing politically scandalous, but nothing seems to scandalise people in politics any more, unless they want to damage Jeremy Corbyn.