mp as an amendment to the upcoming nationality and borders bill this policy essentially begins from the premise that migrants will always want to cross from france to the uk it's not because crossing the channel is easy or because england is overly migrant friendly uk migrants actually receive less money than they would in france and are regularly subject to the possibility of indefinite detention unlike anywhere else in europe rather it's because migrants either speak english or have family in the uk for example the largest group crossing the channel are iranians presumably because their family members were in the uk not france with the uk's iranian population being far bigger than the french one so the logic goes that if migrants are always going to want to try and make it into the uk you need to provide a safe risk-free way of doing it at the moment if you're a migrant in france there's basically no way you can claim asylum in the uk the uk does have a refugee resettlement scheme but it's pretty tiny averaging just NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN resettlements a year compared to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN or so asylum claims are made each year the scheme also only applies to refugees in certain countries which means that you can't actually apply from france the implementation of humanitarian visas would provide a means for migrants to safely cross the channel to the uk where they could have their asylum claim properly processed this would obviously bring the risk down to basically zero but it isn't popular amongst right wingers because it would also encourage more migrants now while this might be true it's worth noting that the uk currently takes in relatively few migrants in NUMBER_TOKEN the uk received about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN asylum applications and accepted about nine thousand for context france received NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and accepted NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN while germany received NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and accepted NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. this means that the uk has the NUMBER_TOKENth highest asylum acceptance rate in the eu well below its developed counterparts and therefore some argue that the uk has the capacity to let in more refugees if not only for humanitarian reasons so those are the four policies that are available to the government and as a final thing whichever policy they end up pursuing there are three things that would help regardless firstly improving relations with france whose cooperation will be required whatever happens secondly properly funding the home office who now have a backlog of NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN asylum applications double that of what it was in NUMBER_TOKEN thirdly improving data quality the home office gave up estimating the uk's illegal immigrant population in NUMBER_TOKEN. it's impossible to evaluate the efficacy of these or any policies anyway what do you think which of these policies do you think the government should go for let us know your thoughts in the comments below finally as i said at the start we're running a major christmas promotion whereby you can get two copies of our book for just NUMBER_TOKEN a major discount and a way to get a gift for yourself and for a friend anyway that offers only on for a limited time and you'll want to order soon if you want to ensure christmas delivery purchasing obviously supports the channel but if you can't do that you can also subscribe which really helps us too and a special thanks to our patreon backers who make videos like this one possible and if you want and if you want to see your name at the end of videos then you too can back us on patreon
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