No the people putting lives at risk are those providing a sh*t boat to cross the channel illegally on and those who are willing to get on board. if the state has a duty of care, it should stop them, if it doesn't it should turn them back. Once people are turned back, nobody will pay the smugglers.
Except volunteers like regan and carter. He offered to machine gun them as they struggled ashore. Other loons proposed shooting holes in the boats whilst others said to ram them back to France or have a white boy from Essex wield a scaffold pole or two