Quote Originally Posted by Kitman View Post
You can’t send them all back at sea straight away because some of them are in their rights to ask for asylum. Unless you want to conduct the Lengthy refugee screening process on a 10 foot dinghy in the middle of a windy cold channel and decide who gets accepted and who gets dumped back in France But the point is the "lengthy screening process should already have been done by the country which they entered the EU through. They should never get to the channel as unscreened refugees/asylum seekers in the fir .st place. They get there because the other countries, knowing that these people are only interested in getting into UK turn a blind eye in the hope they will get here and cease to be their problem.If they get to UK I agree we should screen them normally but if they are picked up in the sea they should be returned to the country they set off from, normally France or Belgium. As I said before pre-customs in an airport is deemed to not be in that airport's country's territory so anyone reject is put on a plane and sent back to the airport he took off from. the same should happen at sea.



What I think you are really asking is why do we get any asylum seekers in the first place given that war zones are far away from us and they have to travel through many developed countries to get here - they should be contained in those other countries instead. And also why do economic migrants get so far without being stopped.

But I feel those questions have been adequately answered
Have they? People have said a lot but what you have stated about being them being dealt with by the countries they first get to is in fact the law. So why are the European countries they move through not applying it. If someone is assessed as to whether he is a refugee/ migrant or whatever in the county he arrives at then he can either be deported from there, or if he is deemed to be genuine, he can stay where he is and then apply to enter another country as a resident the same as anyone else. What is so difficult to grasp about that?