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2020-12-29 Britain
Tiny Britain Migrant Colonist Roundup


2020 Saw the Europe Migrant Crisis Land on British Shores
28 December
[Breitbart] The year in which the United Kingdom finally left the European Union was marred by record waves of illegal immigration across the English Channel, as an estimated 9,000 boat migrants landed on British shores.

A key pillar of the pro-sovereignty Brexit movement was for the British people to ‘take back control’ of their ability to determine their own laws, but perhaps just as crucially, to regain control of the country’s borders.

In 2019, Home Secretary Priti Patel pledged to make migrant crossings an “infrequent phenomenon” and Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a promise that the government would send boat migrants back.

Neither promise would be fulfilled in 2020, with over four times as many migrants landing this year than in 2019.

A TRICKLE TURNS INTO A WAVE
The first few months of the year saw a trickle of migrant boats making the perilous journey from France. However, as lockdown measures were introduced on both sides of the Channel, the trickle turned into larger waves, with nearly 500 migrants landing during the first month of lockdown. Less than a month later, over 1,000 would have been recorded landing.

Amidst the panic surrounding the Chinese coronavirus, there was little appetite amongst the mainstream media to cover the growing migrant crisis, despite warnings that outbreaks of the virus had been found in the makeshift migrant camps in Calais.

Following Great Britain’s official departure from the European Union, veteran Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage took up the slack from the mainstream media and began reporting on the deluge of migrant crossings. In a stunning development, the arch-Brexiteer turned investigative journalist filmed what purported to show the French Navy escorting boat migrants into British territorial waters, where they “handed over” the migrants to the UK Border Force, who in turn brought the migrants ashore at the Port of Dover.

Mr Farage’s findings were confirmed by Breitbart London’s Oliver JJ Lane, who tracked transponder data from ships in the English Channel to confirm the meeting of the two ships. Further data uncovered by Breitbart London showed that a similar meeting of the French Navy and British Border Force took place just days before off the coast of Pett Level, another migrant landing hotspot identified by Mr Farage.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA’S HEAD IN THE SAND
Rather than highlighting the growing migrant crisis, many in the mainstream media and British establishment derided the Brexit leader for focussing on the issue.

Others attempted to use the coronavirus lockdown restrictions to shut down the efforts to uncover the growing migrant scandal, with at least one member of the public reporting Mr Farage to the police in Dover for supposedly breaching the restrictions.

This prompted the police to visit his hotel to warn him to obey “essential travel” rules, which he was, in fact, exempt from as a journalist — hosting an LBC radio show at the time and serving as a columnist for The Telegraph.

Undeterred, Farage pronounced that the police pressure would not stop him from covering the issue.

“One of the points of Brexit was we were going to become an independent, self-governing nation that controlled its borders and its own destiny. To see our immigration rules, to see the rule of law, to see ourselves being made a mockery of, is something I want to fight,” he added.

FOUR STAR ACCOMMODATION FOR MIGRANTS
There are an estimated 56,000 supposed asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, the vast number of whom are deemed ineligible for asylum by the government.

Once on British soil, migrants are afforded free accommodation, a weekly stipend of at least £35.39, access to National Health Service (NHS) healthcare, free dental care, and education for children between the ages of five and 17 — all of which is paid for by the British taxpayer.

Rather than fulfilling the prime minister’s pledge to send illegal boat migrants back, the Home Office has instead been storing migrants in hotels across the country. Some migrants have even received VIP treatment, with their immigration handlers escorting them on private tours of Anfield Stadium after Liverpool’s Premier League win.

The scandal was once again brought to light by the Brexit leader, who uncovered a hotel in the West Midlands housing 147 migrants while refusing to take bookings from native Britons.

In an even more embarrassing development for the government, the Home Office was also revealed by Mr Farage to be housing illegal migrants in a hotel in the constituency of Home Secretary Priti Patel, who has frequently called for a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Two Nigerian Males Charged Over Stowaway Migrants on Tanker That Ended in UK Special Forces Raid
27 December
[Breitbart] Two men appeared in Southampton Crown Court on Saturday, charged with alleged crimes relating to a major security alert in the English Channel that led to British special forces raiding an oil tanker.

Matthew John Okorie, 25 and Sunday Sylvester, 22 were charged with endangering a ship under the UK’s Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and will appear in court again in January for trial. They are two of seven men who were arrested onboard the Nave Andromeda oil tanker in October after the crew reported the presence of stowaways on the ship.

All of those arrested are reported to be of Nigerian origin, and the operators of the Greek ’owned’, Liberian-flagged ship said they believed the men boarded the ship while it was moored off Lagos.

There was a ten-hour standoff in the Channel as the crew of the ship retreated to a safe position, still in control of the ship but apparently unable to bring it alongside. The situation was brought to an end after members of Britannia’s Special Boat Service — the UK equivalent of U.S. Navy SEALs — boarded the tanker from the air.

Britannia’s BBC reports the remaining men of the stowaway group who have not yet been charged are being detained under powers exercised by the UK Border Force.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top
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#1 For Britain so pitied the poor
That she ordered the world to send more:
"Dispatch your dysfunction
To London for luncheon!"
'Twas still there at teatime, the bore.
Posted by Hupusoter Theremp1466 2020-12-29 19:24||   2020-12-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

#2 as an estimated 9,000 boat migrants landed on British shores.

Only 9,000?! Sheesh. If only we were so lucky.
Posted by Clugum Schwarzeneggar3423 2020-12-29 22:44||   2020-12-29 22:44|| Front Page Top

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