BBCNEWS BBC World News July 21, 2021 00:14:00
For some, these are desperate people fleeing some of the world's most desperate countries. for others, they are simply economic migrants. over the last few days, the border force has brought hundreds of migrants ashore. the government says people smugglers are its target, but it is also proposing that unauthorised migrants themselves could be jailed for up to four years. putting people injail who have come here because of the terrible things that have happened to them in their lives is really draconian and punitive, and all it will do is fill up ourjails without resolving the issue. and though...