sMaLl bOaTs! oH nO! nOt sMaLl bOaTs!
Look, rejoin the EU, give us complete freedom of movement and the “crisis” disappears
Sorry, you DON’T want to prosecute gangs who exploit desperate people. Gangs who change huge amounts of money to provide death-trap boats to cross major shipping lanes.
These gangs are amongst the lowest form of scum.
Not sure you could miss the point any harder if you tried
These gangs would be immediatly out of business if you could, you know, just take a regular ferry or the tunnel they made some time ago 🙄
But they’re so powerful! With their… water taxi service?
I mean it is true that smuggling humans is done by violent and dangerous gangs.
It is the same like with drugs. By making it illegal, the “market” is left to people willing to break the law and take serious risks.
The solution is in providing people safe and legal ways to flee or to immigrate.
