| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Latest migrant deaths | |
| Posted by: | Justin Stephenson | |
| Date/Time: | 04/09/24 13:41:00 |
| The UK has been anti ID cards for 70+ years for the simple reason that once you are required to carry an ID card the police (and others) gain the power to ask you to show it - and the experience is that the police abuse those powers to target people or communities they perceive to be a problem. Brexit has made the means of dealing with migration more difficult. International treaties - which allow migrants, many of whom have genuine asylum claims, to delay making such a claim, pass through multiple safe countries and only once they land in the UK to claim asylum - are a major problem as well. What we need is a system that makes migrants claim asylum as soon as they enter the safety of the EU, and anyone who delays without good reason, and travels from one part of the EU to another or to the UK should automatically be refused asylum. That also ensures that economic model for the criminal gangs is broken. But to achieve that, and have a system that is fair to genuine asylum seekers, requires a degree of co-operation not just between UK and EU, but between member countries of the EU, does not seem politically likely for many years, maybe never |