BRITAINISTAN - FRANCISTAN NEWS: UK Migrant Returns Deal With France Will Take Three Centuries to Pay Off, Think Tank Finds; France ‘may not intervene to reverse small boats in the Channel’ in Blow to Starmer’s Migration Plan

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UK Migrant Returns Deal With France Will Take Three Centuries to Pay Off, Think Tank Finds

Analysis from the Migration Watch UK think tank has found that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ deportation scheme with France would take nearly three hundred years to remove the migrants who have arrived since the 2024 general election.

Amid a record setting pace of illegal boat migrants landing on British shores under the leftist Labour Party government, with Prime Minister Starmer’s flagship plan of “smashing the gangs” failing to make a dent in arrivals, London and Paris agreed in July to the so-called ‘one in, one out’ scheme to in a bid to disincentivise illegal crossings of the English Channel.

However, the scheme, in which boat migrants are sent back to France in exchange for asylum seekers with supposedly strong claims to obtain refugee status in Britain, has so far failed to meaningfully increase deportations, with just dozens being sent back to France under the framework.

According to calculations from Migration Watch UK, just 42 boat migrants were sent back to France in the first 76 days of the scheme. This is compared to the 59,348 illegal migrants who successfully crossed the English Channel since the July 4th general election last year.

The think tank estimated that based on current trends, it would take the British government 294 years to send back the illegals that arrived under Labour’s watch back to France, provided no more new migrants arrived in Britain for the rest of time.

In comments provided to Breitbart London, Migration Watch Chairman Alp Mehmet said: “This is not a legacy to look back on with pride, Prime Minister. Moreover, if we receive one migrant back for each one we return, we will have the same number, plus new arrivals, to fend for.

“The public have had enough of fibs and bluster, which the gangs lap up as they get smashed on champagne.” --->READ MORE HERE

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France ‘may not intervene to reverse small boats in the Channel’ in blow to Starmer’s migration plan:

France backing away from commitment to turn back small boats in the Channel, according to reports

France may reverse its pledge to forcefully turn back small boats in the Channel, according to reports, in a blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to stem the number of migrants arriving in the UK.

France is backing away from the commitment amid political turmoil in the French government, according to sources who have spoken to the BBC.

Then-home secretary Yvette Cooper said in April that she had “persuaded France to change its rules”, with the French agreeing to intervene once migrants are in the water to stop the crossings.

Previously, French police had not taken active steps against migrants once they were in the water due to the danger to life. Ms Cooper promised in April that the changes would come in “over the next few months”, and French police officers were filmed by media in July wading into shallow waters and using knives to slash an inflatable small boat.

Now sources have told the BBC that the plan to intercept the dinghies has halted. One figure linked to French maritime security said it was “just a political stunt”.

The maritime prefecture for the Channel also said that the new plan was “still being studied”.

The plan was agreed when Yvette Cooper was home secretary and Bruno Retailleau was the French interior minister. Both are no longer in post, with Ms Cooper moved to the Foreign Office and Mr Retailleau, of the conservative Republicans Party, leaving government when Sébastien Lecornu was made French prime minister.

A spokesperson at French charity Utopia 56, which supports refugees waiting to make the perilous crossing to the UK, told The Independent that they had not seen police introducing new tactics.

But they added: “However, the police presence is still really important and there is often use of violence. They don’t hesitate to sometimes walk in the water to cut the boat – something they have been doing since 2022. There is also the complete abandonment of people in distress afterwards.” --->READ MORE HERE

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