Calais MP says Priti's £54m new deal on Channel migrants won't work

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Advertisement'Illegal immigration is driven by serious organised criminals and people smugglers.
67% : Clandestine Channel Threat Commander Dan O'Mahoney said today: 'There is an unacceptable rise in dangerous small boat crossings across the Channel because of a surge in illegal migration across Europe.
65% : Miss Patel said last night: 'Illegal immigration is driven by serious organised criminals and people smugglers.
64% : Home Secretary Priti Patel said: 'The British people have simply had enough of illegal migration and the exploitation of migrants by criminal gangs.
64% : 'The Government continues to undertake substantial steps to tackle the unacceptable problem of illegal migration through the Nationality and Borders Bill which will protect lives and break this cycle of illegal crossings.
60% : The EU said Spanish border guards should police the Port of Gibraltar and enjoy 'all necessary powers to perform border controls'.
59% : The Home Secretary (left) yesterday confirmed a new agreement to strengthen UK-French cooperation on illegal immigration in the Channel.
56% : 'Priti Patel can re-announce enhanced police cooperation with the French all day, every day, but until there is a political renegotiation to allow refugees safe passage to claim asylum at the U.K. border in France, this relatively small number of desperate people will continue risking everything for a shot at our protection.
55% : 'The Government is addressing the challenge of illegal migration for the first time in over two decades through comprehensive reform of our asylum system which will enable us to going after the gangs exploiting people, deter illegal entry into the UK, introduce new and tougher criminal offences for those attempting to enter the UK illegally and strengthen our ability to remove those with no legal right to be in the UK.'
53% : Union officials said Border Force staff are 'stretched' and 'working excessive hours in unsuitable conditions'; Ex-prime minister Theresa May sounded warnings over the prospect of the UK sending asylum seekers to Australia-style offshore processing centres;Clandestine Channel Threat Commander Dan O'Mahoney said 'unacceptable' rise in small boat crossings was caused by 'surge in illegal migration across Europe'; Detention Action charity said the Government's 'anti-refugee Bill' is 'political theatre that doesn't even pretend to deal with the issue or make our system, safe, fair or efficient'.
48% : In March, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced plans to overhaul Britain's immigration regime by giving border guards patrolling the Channel greater powers to turn back migrant boats.
47% : There were a total of 30 young men, from Iran and Northern and Eastern Africa who had set off overnight from the French coast.
47% : 'People should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and not risk their lives making these dangerous crossing.
46% : A further 12 migrants - mainly men from Iran and North and Eastern Africa - were filmed landing their orange rigid hulled inflatable boat on the pebbles at Dungeness, Kent at 11.15am.
42% : Appearing on GMB this morning, Business Minister Paul Scully said the migrants were escaping war-torn countries and said 'people should be claiming asylum in the first safe port' they reach.

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