In britain, the problem has been in terms of the boat crossings, exacerbated by the fact that from about 2018 onward, britain introduced very strict security controls at tunnel and ferry crossings which meant that people started to cross the channel to get to britain. in fact, one of the problems is that there were very few, safe routes into britain, and so the number of people crossing this way has increased every year. last year it reached a huge record number of 46,000 people and so that's rishi sunak last year promised to make, you know, stopping the boats one of his pledges for 2023 and t...