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Letters: The problem with the ‘alpha migrants’

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

Here illegally

Sir: Unfortunately, Charlotte Eagar misses the point (‘The alpha migrants’, 31 July). The Channel migrants may be ‘bright and brave’, and may repay what they gain from the benefit system. But they are here illegally, thus riding roughshod over the immigration system and those who are still waiting to have their asylum applications processed lawfully.

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