Should asylum seekers be allowed to work while their claim is processed

There are numerous videos online showing French police standing with their hands behind their backs watching these migrants carrying boats down the beach into the water.

Did you watch the one where an explanation was given?
The police were outnumbered about 10 to 1, and not in a position to arrest them. All they can do is watch.
It's like blaming British police for allowing a riot to start. The difference being, the rioters here disperse and can't be followed on foot.
 
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That is still a lot of coast to watch 24/7. It would take hundreds, maybe thousands, of police officers to stand all day and night watching the coast.
like any coastline there will be a very limited places where it will be possible to get a large inflatable craft to the coast and then into the water, and as we see from the video posted by @Vinty above - the frech police are there watching. The sad truth is nobody wants these migrants, not even the countries they are from, can't blame the french for turning a blind eye, everyone they get on a boat is one less they will have to look after.
 
That is still a lot of coast to watch 24/7. It would take hundreds, maybe thousands, of police officers to stand all day and night watching the coast.

One watcher per two miles, twenty miles = 10 watchers x 3 shifts = 30. Call it 40, with an extra 10 available to be bussed to deal with - 50 men should be able to cope. One person with a spike might be enough, to hole the inflatables before they can leave.
 
One watcher per two miles, twenty miles = 10 watchers x 3 shifts = 30. Call it 40, with an extra 10 available to be bussed to deal with - 50 men should be able to cope. One person with a spike might be enough, to hole the inflatables before they can leave.

1 watcher per 2 miles? OK, assuming they can see along 2 miles of coast, which they won't be able to do, what does one watch do when they see somebody?
Say "excuse me, please don't get in the boat"?
Yeah, that'll work.
 
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1 watcher per 2 miles? OK, assuming they can see along 2 miles of coast, which they won't be able to do, what does one watch do when they see somebody?
Say "excuse me, please don't get in the boat"?
Yeah, that'll work.

Did you not read what you pasted? I said - ", with an extra 10 available to be bussed to deal with".
 
Did you not read what you pasted? I said - ", with an extra 10 available to be bussed to deal with".

Yes, that assumes that they can get there quick enough. Maybe they often do get there, but we only hear about the times they don't?
 
The UK has closed legal and safe routes for asylum seekers.

Maybe people who put extra security locks on their doors should be prosecuted for making life harder for burglars.
Your logic is seriously flawed.
Asylum seekers have a right to enter UK, and a right to have their application assessed.
When you prevent anyone who has right to enter, then you are creating a problem, not solving one.

Using a similar analogy as yous, if you prevent the public from accessing a public footpath, you are creating a problem where none existed before.
 
Yes, that assumes that they can get there quick enough. Maybe they often do get there, but we only hear about the times they don't?
Let us also not forget the French do intercept the majority of asylum seekers.
 
The dishonesty by you pro EU/immigration supporters is astonishing.
On the one hand, you claim that, everything in the EU is bigger, better,shinier, the people are better looking, happier, healthier, cleaner and wealthier, yet when people leave EU territory trying get into British territory, you then claim they are fleeing oppression and persecution.
You're being amazingly silly.


It is because of people like you that Boris Johnson has an 80 seat majority and people are drowning in the English channel.
It is the racists, the xenophobes, the inhumane, the selfish, and those lacking compassion that voted for the Tories.
It is those that wanted to close existing safe and legal routes for asylum seekers, forcing such people to resort to dangerous and unsafe crossings.
 
Utter nonsense - the feasible crossing point by dingy is less than 20 miles of french coast, with the vast majority leaving within a few miles of each other. If the french wanted to stop it they could do so very easily - why do you think they won't let us police their coastline ?
If you prevent the asylum seekers from crossing by the shortest route, they'll simply move to the longer and more dangerous routes. They are desperate refugees and they do not feel safe in France.
If you prevent all such crossings, you'll merely drive the criminals and refugees to seek alternative methods.
Better to deal with the situation where it is rather than to drive it to another area.
 
There are numerous videos online showing French police standing with their hands behind their backs watching these migrants carrying boats down the beach into the water.
What do you expect one or two policemen to do, against twenty or thirty desperate refugees, who are about to risk their lives?
 
One watcher per two miles, twenty miles = 10 watchers x 3 shifts = 30. Call it 40, with an extra 10 available to be bussed to deal with - 50 men should be able to cope. One person with a spike might be enough, to hole the inflatables before they can leave.
About twenty or thirty police are required for each potential crossing point.
Think how many boats successfully cross, add that to the number apprehended by the police, then multiply that by your 50 or so for each boat, then allow for the multitude of beaches where nothing happens all night.
You can't just drive from one beach to the next along the sand. Often the beaches are miles long, and to access them you have to travel by road, well more like country lanes, through the back lanes of rural France.
 
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