Despite police cooperation with France and working with authorities from other countries throughout the immigration route, more than 6,600 people crossed the La Mancha channel in the first three months of this year, the largest number of records.
Prime Minister Keir Strmer said that the lack of coordination between the police and the information agencies is partially responsible for the increase in the number of migrants arriving from the United Kingdom in small ships through the Channel Mancha.
In an international meeting on the border security reinforcement and the fight against the smuggling of human beings, Strmer has felt frustrated with the difficulty of preventing thousands of people from risking the dangerous maritime crossing of France.
“We inherit this total fragmentation between our surveillance, our border force and our information agencies,” Stmerer said, while employees from more than 40 countries met in London.
“A fragmentation that made it very clear, when I looked at it, that there were gaps in our defense, an open invitation at our borders so that people traffickers approach.”
The central labor government government of the Starmer’s left, chosen nine months ago, is debating with a subject that bothered its conservative predecessors.
Despite police cooperation with France and working with countries from countries farther from the Route of Migrants in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, more than 6,600 migrants crossed the channel in the first three months of this year, the largest registration number.
The opposition conservatives claim that the numbers show that the Labor should not have abandoned the controversial plan of the previous government to send to the asylum seekers who arrive alone by boat on trips.
Stmerer called the Rwanda Plan, which was never implemented, “trick” and canceled it shortly after being chosen in July.
Great Britain paid hundreds of euros to Rwanda for the plan under an agreement signed by the two countries in 2022, without any deportation being made.
Monday’s meeting was virtually directed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose right -wing government opened the centers in Albania to organize some asylum applicants while their requests are processed.
This project is being closely monitored by the Stmerer government.
Meloni said the plan was “criticized at the beginning”, but “won more and more consensus, so much that today the European Union proposes the creation of return centers in third countries.”
The governments of Albania, Vietname and Iraq, whose citizens represent a significant number of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, have also been represented.
Starmer, who declared that organized people traffickers must be treated in the same way as terrorist groups, has been criticized by refugee agencies and some supporters of the Labor Party for their hard approach to irregular migration.
There is nothing progressive or compassionate when closing your eyes to this situation. There is nothing progressive or compassionate to continue with this false hope that attracts people to make these trips. “
