Sir Keir, this is why your EU are not going to help you with the UK’s illegal migrant crisis

Remember the EU’s ‘Dublin Regulation’ beloved of Rejoiners to repatriate migrants? Seems it’s not going that well…

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Sir Keir, with the EU in a mess like this, Macron will keep helping his illegal migrants to go to the UK

On Saturday the UK’s new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced he was scrapping the Rwanda scheme. The day before, the EU Commission’s statistics office slipped out its latest numbers on migrants being repatriated under the ‘Dublin Regulation’. The data shows the system is completely broken.

This is the system whereby EU member countries can supposedly send back migrants to the last EU country whence they came. Following Brexit, Rejoiners lauded this system and complained that the UK was no longer part of it.

There’s just one small problem : It isn’t working.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Repatriation requests to send illegal migrants back from one EU country to another, 2023

1. The EU as a whole

Requests sent to other EU countries to send back illegal migrants : 186,910
Numbers actually sent back to other EU countries : 16,869

The EU’s ‘Dublin’ system worked in only 9% of cases

[Source: EU Commission (Eurostat), 05 Jul 2024.]

2. In France’s case it’s even worse

French requests sent to other EU countries to send back illegal migrants : 48,724
Numbers actually sent back by France to other EU countries : 2,739

France was only able to deport 5.6% of its illegal migrants under the EU’s system

[Source: EU Commission (Eurostat), 05 Jul 2024.]

This system is supposed to work amongst friendly, EU countries

The Dublin Regulation does not appear to be remotely functional, as we have reported before. Today we have provided the latest figures for last year. This data only relates to sending illegal migrants back within the EU, not to a foreign country such as Rwanda.

Every illegal migrant Macron’s navy escorts to the UK is one less migrant for him to worry about

Every illegal migrant which President Macron’s navy vessels escort across the English Channel is one less migrant for the French government to try (94% unsuccessfully) to send back to the last EU country they came from.

Meanwhile the Rwanda scheme is ‘dead and buried’, Starmer says

“The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started… It’s never been a deterrent.”
For a lawyer this is a very strange statement. How can the Rwanda plan have been a deterrent when – as the new Prime Minister correctly says – it hadn’t even started? This is a complete logical contradiction.

Observations

Our report today once again highlights the realities of life in the dysfunctional EU. When the British people voted to leave the European Union, the Remainer-Rejoiners wailed about the supposed loss of so many benefits from membership. One of these was ‘the Dublin Regulation’.

This was simply dream-world politics. None of these people seem to have the remotest idea of what the EU is and how it works – and how it mostly doesn’t. The ‘Dublin Regulation’ hasn’t worked in years.

The Facts4EU.Org team has spent over eight years, seven days-a-week, studying the EU in minute detail. Today we have provided just one more in a long list of examples of how the EU Commission’s claims simply do not stack up when compared to the reality for hundreds of millions of citizens of EU member countries.

It seems that the EU is already looking forward to Keir Starmer and his colleagues ‘aligning more closely’ with EU laws, rules, directives and regulations. We must fight back on a daily basis if we are to have any chance of retaining our independence, sovereignty, democracy and freedoms.

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Tues 09 Jul 2024

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Reader Comments 19

1. Old Albion , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 07:46:

The Rwanda scheme would have been a deterrent, had it ever actually happened. But of course all the talk about it simply caused more illegals to rush to the boats.
Starmer is now going to spend the money earmarked for the Rwanda scheme on his shiny new 'border security command' whatever that means!
The illegals have to be stopped in French waters and taken back. That will never happen because successive UK governments have been cowards as will the be new government. And Macron (or whoever takes over from him) will find other ways/places to assist with the launches.

2. Sparky , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 08:58:

If the Dublin Agreement returned 9% of migrants as stated above, of the 50,000 that came across on boats in Rishi Sunak's time as PM that's 4,500 returns. The Rwanda scheme was going to send a few hundred per year to Rwanda which means the Dublin Agreement would be a greater deterrent.
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I understand (from Ian Hislop on HIGNFY) that if a person returned to Rwanda broke the law in Rwanda then the Rwandan Govt could return them to the UK. If you had been deported to Rwanda after getting your self across Europe and the Channel, what would you do?
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1 OA. Get real, that argument is popular but over simplifies the issue. Reverse your argument and consider it. Imagine migrants leaving UK shores on inflatable boats and heading for France and the French Navy started picking them up and dropping them back off at British ports, what would the reaction be?. And that's only if the migrants get on the French boats in the first place which they wouldn't if the thought they would be returned to were they had just left.

3. LuxuryBalloon , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 09:35:

The Dublin regulations seem to encourage illegal immigrants in the EU to come to the UK.

4. terence patrick hewett , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 10:24:

Nothing will be done until a Reform UK government is elected: who are the only political party who will do what needs to be done. All the rest is froth. My solution is to build a prison in sunny South Georgia, until they have had enough, and return home. But there are other options.

5. NH , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 11:36:

2. Sparky, "send a few hundred per year to Rwanda which means the Dublin Agreement would be a greater deterrent."
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Are you saying that being returned to the EU is just as bad as being shipped to Rawanda ?
The UK was in the Dublin Agreement when we were in the EU. EU countries used it to send migrants to the UK with most requests accepted but when we tried return migrants to the EU almost all requests were refused or ignored.
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The Rawanda scheme is finished but being in the EU did not help the UK solve illegal migration problems.
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6. Sparky , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 12:36:

5 NH. Being out of the EU has made immigration worse.
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4 TPH. You need to have a closer look at Reforms suggestions. They won’t work but Reform can say what they want in the safe knowledge that they won’t get elected so won’t have to be tested on the policy.

7. LuxuryBalloon , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 13:07:

I really like the idea of former UKIP deputy leader Craig Mackinlay: “I’d favour an immediate unilateral return to France, preferably by Chinook helicopter direct from the point of landing.” … about 50,000 illegal immigrants crossed the channel in dinghies in 2023 … and a Chinook helicopter can carry up to 50 people. That is about 1000 Chinook flights a year, or 2-3 flights a day. A genius idea from Craig Mackinlay.

8. NH , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 13:37:

6. Sparky, "Being out of the EU has made immigration worse"
No, the EU has made it worse by letting the world know that anybody who set's foot in EU, or floats in their general direction, will immediately have more rights than the people who are born in the EU. This has resulted in a huge increase of migrants into the EU which has effected the UK. The EU and the ECHR (endorsed by the EU) are only interested in protecting migrants and they have no interest in protecting national societies, cultures and the safety of EU citizens.
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In Germany they are presently experiencing a huge problem with innocent citizens being stabbed by "Islamic extremists" and their supporters celebrating this on social media. Olaf Scholz has previously stated he will be "deporting these people on a huge scale", but nobody believes him. Could a Germany citizen take the Germany Government to the ECHR claiming their human right to live in a safe society has been ignored ?
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You may not like the Reform Party but very few people have any doubts that they genuinely intend to stop illegal migration and strictly control legal migration. I have no doubt about their sincere intentions and their willingness to do what's necessary to achieve this. You may desperately want to believe that the EU will never collapse and Reform will not be able to influence UK policies but all the evidence is contradicting this.

9. NH , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 13:46:

7. LB, "former UKIP deputy leader Craig Mackinlay"
Is this the same Craig Mackinlay that left UKIP to join the Conservative Party 19 years ago ?

10. Gazzablack , Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 14:04:

2, sparkless
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In the five years to 2019 ( the last full year we were a part of the Dublin agreement) the UK transferred 1,660 migrants to other EU states
However other EU states transferred 3,074 migrants to the UK.
The thing is, not all requests lead to a transfer
In the last 5 years of our membership the percentage of requests that resulted in a transfer from out of the UK was between 4% and 15%
By contrast the percentage of requests for transfers to the UK that were eventually implemented was between 12% and 63%.
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Ian Hislop is the editor of a satirical magazine, he's a "no.can do" who sneers at those that actualy do.
It's a case that a small number COULD be returned to the UK, and not necessarily that they WOULD.
Of course if they did commit such a crime, it would have a detrimental effect on any asylum claim they subsequently make it they were returned to the UK.
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Your reply to OA is fatuous, because it's not the other way around.
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