The majority of the million and a half immigrants arriving here have come here quite legitimately, the proportion arriving on small boats or the backs of lorries is a very small proportion of the totl amount.
Most immigrants are doctors, nurses, and other professionals whose skills we need to buy in because we do not produce enough ourselves, others are students, temporary and contract workers and such like that have time limited visas and most of whom return home once their visas expire.
DS is an academic and he says our universities are still reckoned to be the best in the world and attract a lot of overseas students, especially at post-graduate level. They pay extremely high fees, whci helps fund university education for home students.
Many post graduates are older and often married with children, the same with doctors and nurses, so when they come in to this country, so do their immediate family. This was very obvious during the evacuation of Sudan and the complications surrounding who was considered 'British' and could get on flights and others with conditional visas who often couldn't.
paddyann54 It is nice to think that given a legal way of applying for assylum these people would do that. Some undoubtedly would, but a lot wouldn't because they are not assylum seekers, but economic immigrants and sometimes criminals. The many Albanians coming over are not asylum seekers and nor are others, others being smuggled in are vctimes of modern slavery. Legal means my well reduce the number coming across inlittle boats, but ti will not stop them.
