A country with few asylum-seekers wants even fewer
Draconian laws are unlikely to have the desired effect
STILL, SUNNY weather in southern England brings the smell of sausages from barbecues, the off-key tinkling of ice-cream vans—and inflatable boats filled with asylum-seekers. According to the BBC, more have already crossed the English Channel this year than in all of 2019 or 2020. A new one-day record was set on July 19th, when 430 turned up.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Get back to where you once belonged”
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