Migrants caught in the middle of a disastrous low in Anglo-French relations.
UK politicians blaming French for lack of border vigilance. French politicians blaming British for extensive black market labour conditions that act as a pull across the channel. politico.eu/article/france…
UK politicians blaming French for lack of border vigilance. French politicians blaming British for extensive black market labour conditions that act as a pull across the channel. politico.eu/article/france…
"Everyone knows there are more than 1.2 million illegal immigrants in Great Britain, and that British employers use this labor force to make things that the British manufacture and consume," says French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
This is a point European politicians have long made privately, but never so publicly before.
They say it's easier to work as an undocumented worker in UK than in continental Europe, which is why people try to cross the channel even after they've already snuck into EU/Schengen.
They say it's easier to work as an undocumented worker in UK than in continental Europe, which is why people try to cross the channel even after they've already snuck into EU/Schengen.
Whether that's actually true is a complicated thing to measure.
But migrants who have entered EU/Schengen and can't get work may think something better must exist across the border in Britain specifically *because* they can't cross it.
Was true before and after Brexit.
But migrants who have entered EU/Schengen and can't get work may think something better must exist across the border in Britain specifically *because* they can't cross it.
Was true before and after Brexit.
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