In place, had you read? i think that s right, i think that he put it exactly right. if we want to talk about revising border policy, then let s talk about it. let s not have this pretense that this is about covid. even the states didn t claim that there was really a risk of covid from this, and so he called it out. he said that those are separate things, covid policy under this public health law, and that has long since expired. there s border policy, and the two are very different, and states are coming in and using this public policy as a pretext to come in and tried to have a anti-asylum policy. as you know, title 42 might seem technical and abstract, but it s having enormous impact on the ground. there s real human guys, i think that the abject policy arguments are blurring, our
Who control most small boat crossings from france. posing as an albanian migrant, we contacted some. within half an hour we had two offers for crossings. it s easy, we re told. only those who didn t claim asylum were sent back, one says. the others didn t have any problems. the price of crossing to the uk by small boat is less than half the price of being smuggled by lorry. and there are other options for those who can t pay. there is a criminal drugs market within the uk. that s no secret. we have seen cases of trafficking and we ve seen cases where people are what we call debt bonded. they come here to work off the cost of theirjourney to the uk and they are victims of trafficking, and we look at modern slavery, human trafficking very seriously. one albanian man who paid for a place on a kurdish boat this summer, says he was approached by recruiters for the uk drugs trade in a dunkirk migrant camp. translation: they offered me lots of things to pay for thejourney, to give me a job, but i wasn t interested. they asked me four or five times.
Asylum seeker or somebody asylum seeker or somebody asylum shopping, to use language which is deployed by some, looking for a better life. that is quite accommodated mix to start getting your head around. i can understand how the audience can be a little bit confused by some of this. some of this. given that some eole, some of this. given that some peeple. viewers some of this. given that some people, viewers are some of this. given that some people, viewers are saying - people, viewers are saying this, who didn t claim asylum in the first safe country or didn t chose to move, some say they are illegal migrants. does they are illegal migrants. does the bbc ever use that term? well, not necessarily in that context. talk to you about something which is about to happen. this coming tuesday, the law changes, and technically speaking, there could be people after tuesday to cross the channel who could be classed as an illegal asylum seeker because they didn t already have entry clearance, didn t have permission from the home secretary to arrive in the uk. now, what that means is from the middle of next week, if ministers start using phrases like illegal asylum seeker, it will depend on the