And minute UK did carry out pushbacks it would be bogged down in never ending litigation. Even Immigration Services Union admits tactics are "unusable". Just PR meat to the base while waiting for numbers to drop, as they always do around this time of year.
thetimes.co.uk/article/f16895…
thetimes.co.uk/article/f16895…
Here's the thing, yes they've been up on previous years, mainly due to other routes still being more limited, but Channel crossings are basically seasonal. They always increase around this point as people try and make journey before weather turns and it become far too dangerous.
Home Office aren't stupid, they know there is about to be the annual winter drop in crossings. They also know minute they conduct illegal pushbacks they open a can of worms they really don't want to. Hopefully they're playing for time until asylum seekers leave the front pages.
How much do you want to lay money that the nanosecond the numbers start their seasonal drop the Home Office puts out press releases boasting about how its plans have "deterred" them from crossing? It will have nothing to do with it of course, but they have timed it carefully.
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