Disincentivizing vicious human traffickers: that is the key!
“Our compassion is infinite, but our capacity to help is not.” UK, PM Boris Johnson, April 14, 2022
Almost thirty thousand people have been smuggled across the English Channel into the UK in the last year. That figure is up 30% from the 8,500 of the previous year. The crossing can be dangerous in the small boats, human smugglers pack to the gunwales to make the voyage. In November of last year, 27 young children, women, men, and elderly, drowned when their small boat sank in a heavy storm mid-Channel.
British attempts at dissuading the smugglers at sea has met with difficulty, danger and legal resistance
The common knowledge that all those entering UK illegally will be released into the country to await determination of their asylum status creates a powerful incentive for asylum seekers (and the human traffickers who profit from the desperation of others) to make that dangerous and expensive crossing. With the recent surge in attempted Channel crossings, something had to be done. Furthermore, it had become apparent that the increased volume in traffic across the Channel was the result of a burgeoning, highly profitable business in human trafficking. Not the least concern was the enormous costs to transport, house, feed, and provide medical assistance to immigrants which is an enormous burden on the government and UK ratepayers.
As PM Johnson stated, the capacity to help..has its limits. Furthermore, “following the money trail” reveals that the compassionate British ratepayer who foots the bill for the costs of foreign asylum seekers are actually an integral part of the insidious business model and profit scheme of the foreign smugglers. Those British pounds of the ratepayers are in effect incentivizing those who encourage and profit from the smuggling of human beings.
Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated that the British government had a moral imperative to attempt to break the business model of the human smugglers. He described them as “vile people who abuse immigrants and are turning the Channel into a watery graveyard.” By eliminating the incentive to cross the dangerous Channel into the UK, Boris Johnson argues that the government will make it unprofitable to operate a deadly clandestine cross/Channel ferry service and “will save hundreds of lives.”
On Thursday (April 14, 2022) in a speech near the coast in Kent, a regular landing site for human traffickers, PM Johnson stated that the new government policy states that “anyone entering the UK illegally, will be arrested, and swiftly and humanely removed to a safe third country, or the country of their origin.”
To help facilitate this plan, UK, Home Secretary, Priti Patel, signed a “partnership agreement” with the East African nation of Rwanda. In this agreement, Rwanda would accept any ‘irregular entrants” arriving in the UK after January 1, 2022. The government of Rwanda would be responsible to adjudicate the asylum seekers status, and determine if they would be permitted to enter Rwanda and remain there, and if not, would be returned to their home nation.
PM Boris Johnson has an actual plan to end the profit in human smuggling, disincentivize immigration, and save lives. Unlike President Biden, who will not admit there is a surging (2 million and counting) USA immigrant problem—-and consequently he has no plan.
Today, as Boris Johnson activates his plan to discourage illegal human trafficking, across the “Pond” in the USA on the same date, the “no plan Biden team” works for just the opposite outcome!!!
It is reported today that President Biden reactivated clandestine night flights to
whisk away illegal immigrants, from border towns, to secret locations all across the USA. In effect, President Biden, instead of disincentivizing human trafficking is completing the last leg of the brutal smuggler’s enterprise. His acts encourage more illegal immigration, increase the death and brutality that are the result of the dangerous passage, and force the the US taxpayer to pay for his grossly counter-effective policies.
How much “compassion” can immigrants afford? It is not “compassionate” to incentivize vicious human traffickers, and encourage desperate immigrants into deadly situations.
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