The Home Office believes many illegal migrants come to the UK because their application in France FAILED. Yet, even so, the Home Office approves 72% of claims versus only 25% that France approves.
The government’s Rwanda scheme is a distraction from the far bigger issue of 1.2 LEGAL immigrants. Legal migration has a far bigger impact on people’s daily lives. But illegal migration can also be stopped if the resolve is there. Historian and New Culture Forum Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo lays out some of the steps that would help stop the small boats coming over and reduce the existing migrant backlog.