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Well said. Lumping all illegals and objectifying them makes it so 'easy' to forget their suffering. I watched a programme about a Syrian widow with two children who arrived in Leeds. She got a job but was struggling. She knew how to make feta, so she started making it & selling it on Leeds...

If you had to live in a refugee camp for years, in a tent with shared sanitation, whilst bureaucracy wheels grind slowly, I think you'd have a better idea of why these people pay thousands of pounds to get across seas and Europe. We are safe, warm & well fed here. We haven't had to flee civil...

As I referred to many posts ago, quite a few are trying to reunite with their families. They may have a relative already here. War torn countries split families as they flee. It's not always convenient to make sure everyone leaves a bombed out town or village at the same time.

My sentence was referring to Channel crossings, so sorry if you misunderstood what I meant. JCFG was trying to say the boat crossings only applied to southern ports.

Indeed, so find the figures for all the other ports. You can list them alphabetically if you like.

That's the total for the UK.

I agree, but when the BBC reports on Brits abroad, they're called expats. This is what I have been talking about in their choice of language. I always believed the BBC was unbiased in their news reports until I was in Calais in 2015. Three hours later I was at home watching the news, and just...

221 migrants have tried to get to the UK by boat since Nov 1st. That's 221 divided by 58 days = 3.8. On average, 3.8 people try to get to the UK each day.

Their daughter was already in Canada, so they applied to the Canadian Embassy in the UK. Canada and the UK are in the Commonwealth which makes it easier. Trying not to be too brutal, but staying in Syria could have killed them all.

I gave gave an example of Syrian refugees in a previous post, who crossed from Turkey to Greece. Their ultimate goal was Canada, but they wanted to get there via the UK, because of our link with them. If you have young children why would you want to hang around in camps for months waiting for...

I saw a photograph recently of the family, whose little boy drowned off the coast of Greece. Their intention was always to get out of Syria to go to Canada, where their daughter was already. They made it, but wanted to get there via Britain as it was easier to get asylum through the Embassy...

I do have a big problem with the way the BBC reports news and their half truths, and paid 'invited' guests.

Maybe their gendarmes could find the gang members who are taking large sums of money to smuggle people?

You're right the propaganda has been going on for over ten years.

I read 5 groups of boats and 23 people at the beginning of Christmas and then another 12 since so possibly 51 people rather than dinghies? Anyway they get taken to detention centres, like the one at Gatwick.

It's funny the BBC is making a big hooha about small boats trying to cross the Channel, when it is coming up to the vote in Parliament. As I understand it, there have been about 12 or so migrants (immigrants) caught recently, so hardly a major crisis and numbers not really up on previous years...