Rwanda

[Chippy_Tea]

Four arrested over small boat people smuggling Facebook ads​

By Asha Patel
BBC News, East Midlands

Three men and a woman have been arrested following an investigation into people smuggling.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested the four people, all Vietnamese nationals, on Monday as part of a joint UK-French investigation.
It is alleged the group was involved in advertising small boats crossings into the UK on Facebook, targeting the Vietnamese community.
Migrants were allegedly charged thousands of pounds to make the trip.
The NCA said officers arrested a 34-year-old man in Leicester along with a 23-year-old woman in Croydon and a 64-year-old man at an address in Lewisham.
All three were charged with assisting unlawful immigration and are due to appear at Croydon Crown Court on 21 May.
The 64-year-old man allegedly acted as a driver, collecting migrants who arrived on small boats and bringing them back to the address in Croydon on at least one occasion, the National Crime Agency said.
Another man, aged 25, was also arrested at the Croydon address on a warrant issued by the French authorities and now faces extradition proceedings over allegations he was involved in people smuggling and drug offences.
The arrests, which happened on 22 April, can only be reported now due to French legal restrictions being lifted.
A further 12 individuals have been arrested in Paris suspected of being linked to the same people smuggling network.
According to figures from the Home Office, so far this year Vietnamese people are the largest group by nationality trying to cross the Channel in small boats. The numbers show they made up 20% (1,266) of the 6,265 recorded arrivals between 1 January and 21 April.
Chris Farrimond, NCA Director of Threat Leadership, warned migrants who enter the UK "under these clandestine means" are "under increased risk of being forced into exploitation and debt bondage" by groups of people smugglers.
"Migrants are often sold a dream of a better life and access to well-paid employment in the UK but this is not the reality", he said.
"We allege this group was advertising their crossing services on social media to encourage others from their country to make the same treacherous journey."
"The NCA is continuing our work with partners and has had thousands of social media pages and posts advertising organised immigration crime services removed from platforms", he said.
Home Secretary James Cleverly said the government signed an agreement with Vietnam last week that will strengthen "our cooperation on illegal migration."

 

[The Baron]

As most of you know I do not like the politic threads and rarely comment but one question.
For the people who want all these people to come over here why do a vast amount of them throw away their passports and proof of who they really are so we could process them quicker one would think?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

As most of you know I do not like the politic threads and rarely comment but one question.
For the people who want all these people to come over here why do a vast amount of them throw away their passports and proof of who they really are so we could process them quicker one would think?

The Crown Prosecution Service has said: “The destruction of documents disables the authorities from establishing where an entrant came from, in order to increase the chances of success of a claim or application and/or to thwart removal… These offences have the real potential to undermine the whole system of immigration control.”
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2021/12/20/deliberate-destruction-of-identity-documents

 

[Clint]

Yet I couldn't get anywhere without a passport.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

As most of you know I do not like the politic threads and rarely comment but one question.
For the people who want all these people to come over here why do a vast amount of them throw away their passports and proof of who they really are so we could process them quicker one would think?

Not sure that it's that people want these people to come over here. In my case I want these people processed quickly, why don't we build a processing centre in Calais and, fund these things properly instead of spunking our money away on patrol boats, drones and paying the French to stop them. Pretty sure it's so the government can make it look like they are being proactive, processing centres and paying lawyers just doesn't look cool.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

And these people who call the RNLI a taxi service and want to stop people from donating to the charity should be thrown into the sea.

 

[foxy]

But isn't declining population growth a good thing?
Will lead to more available housing, less environmental damage, more sustainable future...

As Bosch said declining populations lead to a declining economy/

Declining population is negative for growth​

Economists care about demographics for a reason. Put simply, the long-run economic growth rate of a country depends heavily on population growth, with the other piece of the puzzle being productivity, which measures worker efficiency. That is, if you have population growing at 2% and productivity at about 1%, a country’s gross domestic product is about 3%.



Sustained growth flows through to eventually increase income per person — an important indicator of the overall health of an economy. Over past generations, income has been growing for much of the world, alongside quality of life.



The obvious takeaway from population decline is fewer workers as more people retire. This can lead to an imbalance as government revenues from taxes fall and spending on retirees increases. When this happens, young people tend to leave that country or society, further exacerbating the problem.

"They all carry phones" is a bit of a sweeping statement so playing devils advocate -

If it becomes common knowledge that they are going to get shipped to Rwanda if they get caught they will also know that as it states below 29,437 made it last year and only 300 are going to be sent to Rwanda do you honestly believe that is going to put a single person who is willing to risk their lives getting into a rubber dingy to travel to the land of milk and honey off trying?

Well, they pay a lot of money to the traffickers to get on a boat, and phones are cheap. When they started shipping them off to be processed in Port Moresby the boat people stopped almost immediately. Some are still there and have been there for over 10 years.
Yes the points system is still in place unless one is extremely wealthy.

A must watch cringeworthy moment.

Gold.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Rwanda plan: Irish government wants to send asylum seekers back to UK

The Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris has asked Ireland's justice minister to bring legislation to cabinet to enable asylum seekers to be sent back to the UK.

Helen McEntee has revealed that 80% of recent arrivals to the Republic came from the UK across the Irish border.
Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin said the UK's Rwanda policy was already impacting Ireland.
Legislation to revive the UK's Rwanda policy became law on Thursday.
It aims to deter people from crossing the English Channel by sending some asylum seekers to the central African country.
No migrants have yet been sent from the UK.
The UK government had hoped for flights to take off by the spring but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says this should now happen within 10 to 12 weeks.
A spokesman for Mr Harris said the taoiseach had asked Ms McEntee "to bring proposals to cabinet next week to amend existing law regarding the designation of safe 'third countries' and allowing the return of inadmissible international protection applicants to the UK", Irish broadcaster RTÉ reported on Saturday.
Speaking on RTÉ's Six One News, Ms McEntee said: "There are many reasons why we have seen an increase in migration toward Ireland.
"What's clear in the decision that the UK have taken in choosing Brexit, they have actually seen an increase in people seeking asylum in their country. The way that they deal with that, it's their policy.
"My focus as minister for justice is making sure that we have an effective immigration structure and system.
"That's why I'm introducing fast processing. That's why I'll have emergency legislation at cabinet this week to make sure that we can effectively return people to the UK and that's why I'll be meeting with the Home Secretary [James Cleverly] to raise these issues on Monday."
A spokesman for the Irish Department of Justice told BBC News NI that "the issue of irregular movement within the CTA" - the Common Travel Area between Britain and Ireland - would be discussed at the ministers' meeting.

Earlier in the week, Ms McEntee told a committee of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) there had been a rise in the number of people crossing the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, with this now making up 80% of the total number of asylum seekers.
In response to her comments, Mr Martin said the UK government's Rwanda policy meant people were "fearful" of staying in the UK and were crossing the border to the Republic so they would not be sent to Rwanda. Mr Martin, who also serves as Ireland's foreign minister, has spoken of his opposition to the policy.
On Sky News on Sunday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked whether Mr Martin's comments showed the UK was "exporting the problem".
Mr Sunak replied: "The deterrent is - according to your comment - already having an impact, because people are worried about coming here and that demonstrates exactly what I'm saying: if people come to our country illegally, but know that they won't be able to stay, they're much less likely to come."
His comments follow reports that around 350 migrants crossed the Channel to England in small boats on Saturday. The French authorities rescued a further 99 people in three boats who had got in difficulty at sea.
Mr Sunak told Sky News that illegal migration as a "global problem" and said many countries were looking to replicate "third-country partnerships" similar to the agreement struck between the UK and Rwanda.
A No 10 spokesperson had previously said it was "too early to jump to specific conclusions about the impact of the act and treaty in terms of migrant behaviour".
The Safety of Rwanda Act, which aims to avoid further legal challenges to the policy by declaring Rwanda a safe country, was approved by MPs and peers this week and passed into law on Thursday - althoughthe plan could still be held up by court challenges.
In the UK, politicians have also been discussing reducing net migration - with former immigration minister Robert Jenrick on Sunday calling for a "far more restrictive system".
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Jenrick criticised "politicians of all stripes" who have failed to deliver on "promises to control and reduce the levels of legal migration" in the last 30 years - and said he wanted to see net migration capped at "tens of thousands" of people.
Policing Minister Chris Philp said he was "not in a position to... advocate for a hard cap" on migration levels, but the government was introducing measures to reduce legal migration numbers by about "300,000 a year."
Mr Philp also made a plea to migrants considering making the dangerous Channel crossing from Europe, saying: "Please don't do it. It is dangerous, it is illegal, and it is unnecessary."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68914399

 

[jof]

Lol. They all flee Europe(France) to discover that the UK is not the promissed land, so they return to Europe.

Tres drol as the froggies say.