That is terrible, a waste of human life, due to mans inhumanity to man, and pure greed by the traffickers who the French and UK Governments are failing dismally to stop!
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Yes, I know how you and many others feel Steve about all these foreigners invading our lands.
But, just remember it was the Western nations including, and especially GB, that invaded
their lands, robbed
their lands of anything of worth, forced
them into slavery and brought them to the West*, then got
them to fight the 'White Mans Wars' in the 20th Century, then invaded
their lands to fight wars in the 21st Century which destroyed the political and religious balance of those lands.
In short the West, along with Britain, created the history which has formed the modern challenge of mass movements of people.
To use an old saying: We sowed the wind, now we reap the whirlwind.
Without forming a sealed, undemocratic, autocratic state, like China, I do not know of a sensible, practice, answer to this challenge for the UK or Europe.
*I of course recognise that some foreign, no-western, states and their peoples, especially in Africa, were also heavily involved in this.