The sight of people appearing in their tens of thousands at a coastline is not easy to deal with.
In some respects, it’s our most difficult challenge today.
It’s a crime to do it, and it only prospers because of crime gangs. It isn’t possible to just ‘appear’ on a coastline and disappear to another country. It takes a lot of law breaking and force in order to make it happen.
In the UK, we face this almost daily. The fact is many have arrived, and many keep coming, so much so that we are beleaguered with a sense of crime on our shores.
It isn’t pleasant and it isn’t a happy affair. It means dealing with very dangerous people.
It also means fighting back, which is the hardest part of all.
