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At least worse than every other viable, prosperous country that’s travelled through that won’t torture and kill them and / or is better than where they originated. Race to the bottom type stuff.
The govt. will tell you that a lot of folks are not being tortured or killed; they want a better life and see entry to Europe as a means of achieving it, and that this has generated a criminal infrastructure at scale that is comfortable with deaths at sea.
hugo7
Howard
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.