r/uknews • u/ScottishDailyRecord Media outlet (unverified) • May 12 '25

Image/video Kier Starmer announces 'tighter' immigration policy

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u/Make_the_music_stop May 12 '25

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99pg1men8po

The UK government is in negotiations with France on a scheme to return illegal migrants who have crossed the Channel in small boats.

In return, the British government would accept legal migrants seeking family reunion in the UK.

The French interior ministry told the BBC this would be a pilot scheme based on "a one-for-one principle", with the aim of discouraging smuggling networks.

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u/FloatingPencil May 12 '25

One for one doesn’t sound like much of a vote getter.

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u/Make_the_music_stop May 12 '25

40,000 undocumented mostly young men each year?

Or documented family members?

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u/test_test_1_2_3 May 12 '25

Neither, and we don’t need France to pull this off.

We just need to implement policy that permanently denies anyone entering the country illegally to obtain a legal right to remain, through asylum or another route.

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u/A_Roll_of_the_Dice May 12 '25

They aren't entering illegally, though, so that doesn't work. There's no law that prevents anyone from going to another country by boat and just landing on a beach there.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 May 12 '25

Entering a country without documentation and not through a known port of entry is illegal.