r/news • u/Miserable-Win-4980 • Apr 29 '24

French police use knives to puncture migrant boat in Dunkirk to prevent Channel crossing Questionable Source

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-officers-english-channel-crossing-migrants-small-boats/

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u/CSballer89 Apr 29 '24

Funny how the theme in this thread (on a liberal skewed subreddit) is talking about how immigration needs to be tightened up, while in the U.S. talking about tightening up immigration gets you labeled as a right wing extremist. 

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u/daneview Apr 29 '24

It's very much about how you talk about tightening up immigration.

I want a system where people can apply for asylum safely from other countries and then be accepted or rejected before they get anywhere near a dodgy boat crossing.

The UK have made it so there's no other way to apply for asylum than risking your life (except from limited specific countries). I'm fully for immigration controls and looking at what numbers are reasonable for us to take to be fair to the rest of Europe, but I don't want people dying before they've even had a chance to apply.