Offshore Processing For Illegals.....what Do We Think?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/channel-crossings-dominic-raab-does-not-deny-government-wants-deal-to-send-migrants-to-albania-12471348
They are talking about Albania in the article but we have thousands of islands, why not adapt a convenient one of those as a processing centre?

[Untitled]

The latter.

[dannyk13]

Bobbi //How about decommissioning a ship,//
Only problem with that is that with the numbers of illegals crossing the channel you would need a fleet of boats,

[Bobbisox1]

A large liner would help Danny ,the security could keep the Eritreans apart from the Iraqis etc…..process them , have a translators onboard to establish their language ,get a Chinook to get them to an airport and get them on a plane , bye,bye

[dannyk13]

That sounds OK Bobbi.

[Hopkirk]

The Liverpool bomber was a failed asylum seeker. He shouldn't have been on UK soil. At least this Albanian idea would mean he wasn't.

[ichkeria]

Well, I think I am banking on my "ridiculous" assessment from earlier:
This from the Guardian:

"Albania’s foreign minister, Olta Xhaçka, and its ambassador to the UK, Qirjako Qirko, dismissed as a “fake news” a report in the Times suggesting Albania would be willing to host people arriving in the UK from France in small boats.

Raab appeared to give credence to the report by telling Times Radio: “We are looking at international partnerships that can take the processing out of the UK in order to try and reduce the pull factor which means people think they can successfully take advantage of these routes.”

On Sky News later, when Raab was asked if people seeking asylum in the UK would be flown to Albania, he said: “Well that’s one country, but we are willing to look with partners at whether it’s possible to do this international processing.”
" ...Tirana reacted angrily to the report. Xhaçka tweeted an image of the front page of the Times and said: “Same old fake news this time in the front page of a respected paper as The Times! And btw I am not a ‘he’ but a ‘she’ who has always admired the quality of British media. Sad.”

[youngmafbog]

Sounds fine to me, we need to make it as uncomfortable as possible.

Along with this we need to amend the HRA to benefit the people of this country. Johnson has an 80 seta majority he could easily do that if he wanted to. He doesnt seem to want to for some reason though.

[ichkeria]

Albania isn’t happening .
As of it could.
I mean how on Earth would that work?

The sooner these crackpot headline-grabbing but completely impractical ideas are dropped the better and serious solutions dreamt up the better

[youngmafbog]

//I mean how on Earth would that work?//

Easily, if you have the mind to do it.

Of course it goes against your left wing ideologies so really you should be saying I dont want it to work rather than implying it cant be done.

[ichkeria]

But Albania doesn’t want it: and in fairness to Mr Raab, I don’t think he was actually saying that is what they were doing. Just dine wishy-washy stuff about exploring the possibility with other countries - I’d be interested to know which if any.
Left or right wing is irrelevant: it’s plain common sense.
I thought foolishly to start with that this amazingly was a serious thing that had been properly thought through but I don’t think it can be.

[webbo3]

What about something like HMP Weare.

[New Judge]

Regardless of what Albania thinks of the idea (and they would be crazy to entertain it) does the government really think it will be able to simply bring people ashore in Dover (courtesy of HM Border Force and the RNLI) and then simply take them to an airport (Manston is nearby and not used at present) to fly them to Albania? Do they not think the Yuman Rites lawyers may have a little input?

Sorry - pie in the sky.