I thought Mexico was paying for the wall?
I've yet to be convinced that the hardship the youth expect is actually much more than an inconvenience. I'm certainly willing to hear the argument, but to date all I ever hear from young people are the same pre-conditioned lines on "bigotry/racist", "ruining our future", "won't be able to get jobs".
My thoughts:
They'll have to pay £6 for a 4-year tourist visa
They'll have to pay
(far cheaper
) uni tuition fees than domestically
They'll likely need travel insurance now, like they do for the other 130 odd countries on the planet
The numbers of young people who work /study in the EU are nominal to make this as big a problem as the media want to make out
They won't be able to work while unskilled. Oh but wait. My cousin met her soon to be Aussie husband cleaning chalets in France. Last time I checked Australia wasn't inn the EU?!
Once they're skilled, they will have to go through the same process as any American/Australian/Canadian/Kiwi, and I've never heard them complaining that getting into the EU was unfair/racist. I hear more about issues getting into the USA in actuality!
In the absence of being able to find a young person who can yet articulate this to me. I am of the opinion that it is actually a rose tinted glasses problem doled out by Remain because Leave didn't spend any money here.
On the $5b, as much as you jested there, you probably aren't wrong! Unless it has an armed guard post every 50m, it'll be as useful as the IE/NI, Israel/Gaza, Gaza/Egypt, Israel/West Bank walls were/are. Unfortunately, unless it is literally air dropped on a residential district, 90% of it will vanish into the corrupt hands of the Plutarchy anyway. :rolleye:
Still, it's a nice idea.
I share concerns over the first safe harbour issue. Getting into the EU in the east and then criminally crossing the entire continent to show up at our borders, terrorise tourists and freight hauliers on French roads, destroy all their papers then 'claim' to be 16. Say's you're an economic migrant. They cottoned on that our asylum rules prohibited the expulsion of minors, so everyone is 16 now and whoops, no papers.
Of course they just need to get a relative to set foot in the country and they can claim guardian requirements.
I've always wondered how we can be culturally so different. If I thought my family needed asylum, I'd take me and them and get the the first safe place possible and then have a conversation about "my second language is English, can we go to England". It's astonishing that it's seldom ever the daughters/sisters/young children/elderly who turn up. Always the first born son's who need asylum. Tyranny is highly selective it seems.
Of course it's not, it's economic migration playing our own generosity and undermining hope for people who really deserve it. People and their families who we
should be helping.
We've had a wave of people trying to get across the English Channel on dingies recently because they can't get through the Channel Tunnel or onto ferries any more. It's one of the most dangerous waterways in the world. I have family in the RNLI who have to go out and seriously risk their lives to try and recover them. As a consequence of that, I offer precisely zero sympathy. If they wanted asylum, they should have walked up to a border guard and asked for it or done likewise at an embassy, consulate or high commission in any other of the counties they clambered through. The majority want to get over here, disappear into the night and find themselves a refugee chasing lawyer to hook them up with some socialism. That really undermines our ability to help people and their families who are in need of fleeing direct oppression, persecution and violence.