Home Office launches marketing campaign to sort out migrant boats disaster
A tough-hitting Home Office marketing campaign will warn individuals in Albania to not try a Channel crossing in a small boat.
Potential unlawful migrants will likely be instructed they face being detained and deported if they arrive to the UK.
The marketing campaign will characteristic photographs of individuals on a crowded boat and clarify simply how harmful the journeys are.
Albania is the primary nation to be focused however will probably be rolled out in different territories.
This comes as Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick visits Algeria, Tunisia, Italy and France in a bid to sort out migration challenges and “stop the boats”.
Under a deal introduced final week, lots of of Albanian prisoners will likely be despatched dwelling for British assist to modernise the nation’s jail system.
Mr Jenrick mentioned: “Organised immigration crime is a global challenge which requires international solutions the whole way along the migration route. That includes working proactively at source before people set off on dangerous and unnecessary journeys.
“We are determined to stop the boats and the campaign, launching in Albania this week, is just one component of the Home Office’s work upstream to help dispel myths about illegal travel to the UK, explain the realities, and combat the lies pedalled by evil people-smugglers who profit from this vile trade.”
Tim Naor Hilton, chief govt of Refugee Action, was not impressed by the Home Office marketing campaign.
He mentioned: “This is yet another pointless campaign that shows ministers refuse to understand that a small minority of the world’s refugees have very powerful reasons to come here. It also repeats the myth that refugee migration is illegal when in fact a person’s right to enter a country to claim asylum is protected by a refugee convention we helped create.
“If the Government wanted to smash the smuggling gangs and stop people crossing the Channel in flimsy boats it would create more safe routes for refugees to travel here to claim asylum.”
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper mentioned: “It beggars perception that as Channel crossings proceed to rise and the asylum system is in chaos, all of the Conservatives can give you to cease the legal gangs is an advert marketing campaign.
“At every turn, the Tories so-called solutions fail to meet the scale of the crisis. All they are doing is tinkering at the edges. Labour has a clear plan for a cross-border police unit, fast-tracking to clear the backlog and a proper deal with France on safe returns.”