IT was around 7.45 am when The first small boat appearedThe sun was rising above the gravel, a coastal city located at the mouth of the AA River Kalas And Dunkark. This was the first quiet day in more than a week.
Three military reservoirs of khaki uniform and black colored, the word ‘Gandaram’ – Salady officials by Britain – stood on the banks of the river, from where a few hundred meters away from where it opens on the waterway English ChannelHe was alert to the vessel by a passing Jogar.
It was a speck on the river in the distance at first, but it soon became quite close that it was an inflatable fleet with more than a dozen young men.
One of the three military reservoirs looked inflatable through its telescope as it left them in the past. Another started typing something on his phone. The authorities then started marching along the banks of the river behind the boat – but it did nothing to stop them on the board.
At this point, people began to appear further on the huge expansion of the gravine beach, moving forward, some running, towards the beach. Most men first, then women and young children too.
In a city at the top of the beach, a handful of police officers – perhaps even salaried with Britain’s money – were trying to stand in the way of a group. But more than a dozen people faced to make a bine for the sea, it was an impossible task.
Soon, on the beach they were going into the water towards the ship to join existing passengers. It quickly became crowded.
A helicopter appeared and looked at less around the vessel, but people continued. A gendermari boat arrived and tried to block some boarding, but without endangering people’s lives on overloaded boat, it was clear that nothing could be done to stop them.
By 9.30 pm, the boat was sailing towards the Dover.
In the next hour, another dingi made his way over the river, this time on board with about 25 people, and the same process was played. About an hour later, another boat appeared and raised more people from the beach, before sailing towards Britain.
The same day, 17 Small boats It was built in Britain, with 1,097 people on the board. The British press was in the news for a more record decrypt for the channel crossing, so far this year is more than 30,100 under labor.
Shabana Mahmud, who was Appointed as Home Secretary only 48 hours agoThe numbers were described as “completely unacceptable” and pledged to “detect all options to restore the order”.
His words are all very familiar. In recent years, UK ministers have promised to promise to curb the crossing – but to no avail.
The government of Sir Kir Stmper has promised more beach patrols, increased monitoring technology and new expert intelligence units in the last one year.
With £ 476 million, committed to the period of 2023–25, France has been assigned a huge amount of British funds to deal with the issue.
The fund has been spent on deployment of hundreds, among other things. Gandeme reservoir, helicopter and quadbike – All the weekends were out of full force in gravel. Nevertheless, he proved to be able to do nothing to stop the departure.
People have been going to UK from here irregularly for the last 30 years. It’s not going to stop now
A French officer
So far, all have to show for funds and initiatives that have higher arrival and high rate of death for the purpose of stopping boats, as displayed by the number of fatal ambassador recorded last year. This week alone, an attempt has been made to attempt to travel four people, including a single one. Woman and two children.
While the French police succeed in stopping some crossings, usually by destroying boats before reaching the water, it causes more people on each boat that make it in water, making people at high risk.
Nevertheless, the tough strategy continues to chase. Under the pressure from the UK, France announced earlier this year that the border police, gandames and coastguard ships would stop small boats within 300 meters of the shore. Such obstruction is not clear how people can work without putting people on the board at serious risk.
On Saturday morning, a gandaram standing from the banks of the river, as the boats passed, told me that the change would threaten life. “These are overloaded boats, people will panic, and then what?” He said with the raised eyebrows. “And who will be held responsible? Police officers were doing exercises, not the state.”
He did not think that this would be effective in eliminating the problem, either indicating that smugglers would simply find the methods around it.
The ministers recently announced the so-called ‘One-in-One-Out’ deal, under which the arrival of small boat for France for Britain will be returned to France, taking the same number of migrants from France.
But each week only 50 people are really expected to be returned under the plan, and without any documents – such as most Sudani citizens for example – will not be eligible to apply for the legal passage.
Both initiatives, to be properly taken, would also have no doubt that it will be very expensive, more taxpayers than both Britain and France require: For more French police boats, over -detention in the UK, not to mention the cost of transporting people on the channel in both directions under the return deal.
And even with all this, the possibility of these new schemes is successful in stopping people from trying to overcome and – in terms of interception – managing life without threatening to do so is thinner for anyone.
Ali, a young Sudani person living in Kallis, has tried to travel twice by a small boat. He told me that one attempt failed due to bad weather, and the other took the boat in the wrong direction due to ‘Captain’.
He explained that he was expecting to live in France, but his refuge was recently rejected. The Dublin policy of the European Union means that any attempt to claim asylum in another European Union country will now succeed, so it now sees Britain as its only hope.
Asked if they feel that anything will stop traveling to them and others, Ali said. “If Britain sends me back to France, is it fine. But what? Then France will send me back to Sudan?
“I see drones and all the things that UK buys for France. So much money, but doesn’t matter. When you don’t have any other option, like me, what else can we do?”
Looking at the scene in Gravelin on Saturday morning, it was clear that the UK taxpayer’s money has been wasted in an attempt to stop people like Ali from traveling. It was also clear that any future of the future tries to promote future security and introduce a tough strategy, like all those who fail to serve to, fails and only to carry forward the life of danger.
As one of the lingamas said, as the other boat left for the white rocks of the Dover: “People have been leaving here irregularly from here for the last 30 years. It is no longer going to stop.”