While sources such as the leaked report published by the Mail on Sunday provide us with new information about trends in people arriving via small boat, without more information from the government we can’t conclude that the majority are economic migrants.
that a leaked report on small boat crossings, which reportedly found that “4 in 10 migrants are from war-free Albania”, “vindicate[s] Home Secretary Priti Patel’s view that the majority of those crossing the Channel are ‘effectively economic migrants’ and ‘not genuine asylum seekers’.”
The article says that the report found “1,075 Albanians crossed the Channel in small boats organised by the gangs during a six-week period this summer”—37.5% of the total 2,863 who crossed the Channel in boats facilitated by nine smuggling gangs between 1 June and 12 July. The reported data covers 2,863 people who crossed the Channel over a period of six weeks, facilitated by nine gangs.on the number of people who cross the Channel by small boat each week in total, which show that in the same period 4,265 people crossed the Channel.
The second issue is the suggestion that people from “war-free Albania” are not genuine asylum seekers, when hundreds of Albanians are in fact granted asylum.states that “4 in 10 migrants are from Albania, not war torn states”, adding that the leaked report exposes “how the largest proportion of those making illegal crossings appear to be economic migrants abusing Britain’s generous asylum system”. that someone may qualify for refugee status, not just because they are fleeing war.
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