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Albanian channel crossings are making our borders look like a joke

25 August 2022

11:27 PM

25 August 2022

11:27 PM

The wholesale abuse of the United Kingdom’s asylum system has taken a novel, absurdist twist in the last few months.

Recent years have seen thousands of young men predominantly from war-torn or extremely oppressive countries – such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria – chugged across the English Channel from the safe country of France to lodge asylum claims here.

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