Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Good grief it took you until point 5 to unveil the tired old blame it on the right wing media refrain - must be something of a record.

Put half a dozen of the boats onto the bottom of the channel and numbers trying to cross would drop dramatically. If as in your point 5 asylum seekers are such a small porportion of immigrants, then the rest sent to see Davy Jones must by definition be illegals?

As to whether such illegals carry out more crime, I guess the answer lies in the fact tht poverty and deprivation leads anyone (migdant or not) to turn to crime more readily. In my view the connection between illegals and for instance (to cite TTR) grooming gangs is far from proven as this has been a blight on society for much longer that the channel crossings - far more likely legal migrants/second generation if indeed an ethnic issue.
hit the like button. Oh and swale needs to look at the statistics on crime committed by immigrants in relation to native Brits.. It isn't the same, far from it.