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Why can’t Britain control migration?

Brexit was supposed to help the UK manage its borders but people are still pouring in

The Sunday Times

In late December 2018, the home secretary, Sajid Javid, rushed back from a family trip to South Africa to deal with a “major incident”, the spike in the number of migrants seeking to enter the UK by boat — 220 had tried to cross the English Channel in eight weeks. Javid was under pressure to deploy the Royal Navy to avoid what one MP labelled a “catastrophe”.

In the past eight weeks, 15,246 people have been detected crossing the world’s busiest shipping lane in small boats. Once deemed too perilous a route to attempt, compared with the relative safety of a lorry or ferry, it has rapidly become one of the main thoroughfares for so-called “irregular” migration to Britain.

The numbers trying have been undeterred