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War on people smugglers is doomed to fail

The more difficult we make it to claim asylum, the more we throw desperate asylum seekers into the arms of criminals

The Times

It has a ring to it, doesn’t it, in this life which is a vale of tears and so full of disappointment? “This legislation,” said the home secretary Priti Patel this week of her new Nationality Bill, “delivers on what the British people have voted for time and time again: for the UK to take full control of its borders.”

We promised it, you voted for it, here it comes.

And the measure laid before parliament this week is almost erotically charged with “full control”; you can practically feel the handcuffs. In summary, there will be a two-tier system to create a new, lesser status for asylum seekers who arrive illegally. Which according to some experts is nearly two thirds of them, though most do