Britain's Immigration Dilemma
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As the Home Secretary Priti Patel promises to fix a 'broken' asylum system, what measures could the government take to reduce the number of migrants crossing the English Channel?
Contributors:
Professor Nando Sigona, Department of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
Kathleen Newland, co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute
Rob McNeil, deputy director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University,
Producers: Ros Jones, Bob Howard, Kirsteen Knight Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. |
| 0:11.0 | The briefing room is the virtual collective cranium, |
| 0:14.3 | where for 28 minutes, we pipe in the top experts on a big question |
| 0:18.3 | and you and I learn something together. |
| 0:22.7 | This week, the channel boat people and other unauthorised entries. How big a problem are they? And what are the solutions? |
| 0:32.3 | A season follows season, summer boats in the channel led to autumn tough talk at the |
| 0:42.5 | Tories' virtual party conference. |
| 0:45.4 | This week, the Home Secretary promised her party she would do something about unauthorised |
| 0:50.4 | immigration. |
| 0:52.0 | She's not the first. |
| 0:53.4 | But what is the scale of the problem and what |
| 0:55.8 | practical solutions are available? Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
| 1:06.1 | First, the view from the cliffs of the south coast. The BBC's Simon Jones has been reporting |
| 1:11.9 | on the increasing number of people making the journey |
| 1:14.4 | across the channel over the summer. |
| 1:18.4 | Well, last month was a really busy month |
| 1:21.0 | in terms of migrant crossings. |
| 1:22.6 | In fact, a month of records. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, on one single day, early last month, 416 people managed to reach the UK by boat. |
| 1:32.6 | And during the course of last month, the total figure was almost 2,000 people. And that is a big |
| 1:38.3 | increase because that number is higher than the number of migrants who crossed the channel by boat |
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