Britain’s immigration stance sometimes echoes the late film director Stanley Kubrick: “I don’t always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.”
Britain does not want illegal immigrants. Yet nor does it want “hostile” systems aimed at removing them. Even when hardline enforcement policies are not deporting Windrush Brits, they’re too often cruel and ineffective. “Enforced returns” are now at a record low: there were fewer than 8,000 last year.
Britain has between 500,000 and 1.2 million irregular migrants. If we leave the EU and end free movement that figure will rise, along with public demand for a policy response that actually works.
The Social Market Foundation has an answer. Instead of wastefully trying to round up unauthorised migrants for deportation,…
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