Dozens of Illegal Boats Land in England

Over forty illegal migrants landed in England after taking to sea in boats over the weekend, according to reports.

Tens of thousands of illegal migrants attempt to break into the United Kingdom by forcing their way into Britain-bound lorries, boarding ferries, or storming the Channel Tunnel, but illegal sea crossings of the type seen in Greece, Italy, and Spain were quite rare until recently.

Now, hundreds of boat migrants, often identifying as Iranian, are coming across the narrow straits separating England and France — an advanced, first-world EU member-state — in vessels stolen from fishermen or, more often, in dangerous boats provided by criminal people-smugglers in exchange for significant sums of money.

More than forty such migrants arrived in England over the past weekend; a number on par with some of the shipments of illegal migrants being brought to Italy by supposed “rescue” NGOs which have been making headlines in recent weeks, yet much less prominently reported — perhaps because the British Home Office is not offering the same resistance to the illegal arrivals as Italy’s deputy prime minister and minister of the interior, Matteo Salvini.

“Anyone crossing the Channel in a small boat is taking a huge risk with their life and the lives of their children,” warned a Home Office spokesman.

“It is an established principle that those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and since January more than 40 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe,” they added — although this figure represents only a small number of total arrivals.

In fact, the EU makes it very difficult for Britain to send illegal boat migrants back to mainland Europe, despite the fact they are clearly in no danger in France, as the bloc’s rules dictate that illegals should not simply be sent back to the last safe member-state they were present in, but the first they arrived in, which often cannot be determined due to lack of a paper trail and the migrants themselves remaining tight-lipped — perhaps unsurprisingly.

Our biggest problem is that the people currently guarding England's frontiers are Open Borders fanatics who act accordingly even as they pretend to oppose the influx of illegal boat migrants.