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What about,oh idk, processing claims faster so you can either allow people to stay or remove them?
The problem with this from the government’s perspective is that most claims get through, and deportation is expensive, and the traffickers still make their cash. To the govt. it’s lose lose. They will tell you that even the bogus or marginal claims get through. Their whole plan rests on making the time between arrival and processing so awful that folks will be deterred from ever crossing the channel.
Howard-
The issue with this is they need to make our asylum system worse than being tortured and killed.
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folks will be deterred from ever crossing the channel
There's plenty of data showing that government policies don't have a detterent effect. Many people who need asylum will still choose the UK, regardless of barges and flights to Rwanda. Braverman and her staff must be well aware of this data. So the real reason for these policies must be to win votes. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/uk-policies-to-deter-people-from-claiming-asylum/
Dammit
nick_h.
If you look at historical treatment of displaced people, then yes. There is plenty of scope to do worse things.
One of the many things I hate about this is the way it makes a false assumption and gets away with it.
Two binary choices:
A. Be housed on a barge.
B. Fuck off back to France.
What about,oh idk, processing claims faster so you can either allow people to stay or remove them? You never know it might free up existing space so you don't need barges.