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Johnson's cynical immigration con

Pete North • 22 January 2022

Yet again Patel takes us for fools

According to the Daily Mail, the Army will start building camps to house up to 30,000 Channel migrants from next month. Plans are being drawn up for soldiers to construct temporary housing on Ministry of Defence land across the UK. The project is likely to cost tens of millions of pounds. Home Secretary Priti Patel has privately told Tory MPs that work on the first phase is due to start within weeks.

Government sources, they say, insist the scheme will be cheaper than the current accommodation provided for migrants, which has seen thousands placed in three and four-star hotels on full board. Ministers hope the move towards temporary hostel-style housing on military bases will also act as a deterrent to migrants planning to cross the Channel. Meanwhile, it emerged this week that the Home Office could stop publishing daily figures on the number of Channel migrants when the MoD takes over operations to intercept them.

We would note that any such facilities will be filled in a matter of weeks, rapidly bringing us back to the situation we find ourselves in now. This can only serve as a partial solution but only if illegal immigrants are rapidly deported. Which is not going to happen. We can also safely assume that tis move will in no way act as a deterrent. Ministers cannot possibly believe that, and it beggars belief that they expect us to believe it.

Worse still, handing the job to army serves no practical purpose. This is merely window dressing. So too is the decision to have the MoD running the intercepts. It doesn’t matter who is doing the job. That it is done at all is an outrage.

Reading between the lines, it is clear that there is no substantive change of policy. We can expect another summer of record arrivals, and more legal challenges from the NGOcracy. When the capacity of detention faculties is reached we could be looking at detaining tens of thousands more which is politically unsustainable and will see calls for an amnesty. Mass incarceration on British soil is not a good look.

That Patel is lying about what she expects this to achive and has taken the decision not to report the daily figures, suggests an attempt to operate this human conveyor belt under a shroud of secrecy knowing that we’re not going to and end to this any time soon.

We do not yet know what form the Borders Bill will take once it’s been mauled by the House of Lords. The government’s reforms of the asylum system, as proposed in the Nationality and Borders Bill, would fail to meet the UK’s human-rights obligations and risk exacerbating the backlog of claims, according to a report by MPs on the Joint Committee on Human Rights. The report warns that legislating to create different categories of refugee based on how they came to the UK would be inconsistent with the Refugee Convention, and potentially a discriminatory breach of human rights.

Meanwhile, the High Court has ruled that some age assessments carried out on migrants arriving in Kent are unlawful. The cases of two migrants who said they were teenagers showed evidence of a pattern of children being treated unlawfully, according to a judge.

Again we see a relentless campaing by activist lawyers, NGOs and unelected lords to disarm the state of any defences against illegal immigration. Virtually anyone who rocks up, having greased the palms of people smugglers in France, can expect to evade deportation. Unless the government is willing to withdraw from the 1951 Refugee Convention, it is unlikely Patel’s reforms will withstand the onslaught.

Even then, removing the obstacles to deportation is contingent on other countries taking their illegal immigrants back. The UK government must be prepared to suspend all work visas for those countries and if needs be place tariffs on their exports. But again, this simply isn’t going to happen. The Tories refuse to take on the human rights blob. They don't have the stomach for it or the political will. We must therefore assume it's Tory policy to continue to allow mass illegal immigration with a view to a future amnesty.

Clearly Boris Johnson assumes cosmetic gestures is enough to secure his precarious leadership, along with a freeze to the BBC budget. The Tories are fobbing us off once again, pandering to those who didn’t vote Conservative (and never will) while totally neglecting those who did. It's time to send Boris a message. Join UKIP today.

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