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This idea of the British government, in its effort to look different from the previous Conservative government that defeated it in the elections last July, seems harsh and new.
It will obviously attract media attention even if it does not succeed. Essentially, London seeks to cut off funding to those that the Foreign Office considers to be organized immigration networks, so that traffickers do not further enrich themselves and become empowered by trafficking innocent people. The rhetoric so far works. But the reality is different and more difficult. Britain has so far spent about a billion pounds given to France to prevent illegal crossings across the Channel, and the numbers of arrivals are still very high, and the British are still irritated by this impotence, whether from the French or from their governments.
Sanctions should also involve the cooperation of European countries, the coordination of actions and the sharing of intelligence, a process that has become more difficult after Brexit. The British Foreign Secretary also spoke about sanctions against the leaders of these trafficking groups, outside of Britain where history has shown that when one of them falls, another one emerges to replace him. But as Sky News writes, if sanctions are to be applied to the leaders of trafficking in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Albania and beyond, good luck to the British authorities.
Sanctions may work, but British politicians, with most of the countries of origin, have little cooperation with countries like Afghanistan or Iraq or any other country. Meanwhile, what is not being effectively targeted in the war that has already been different to illegal immigration, is being described differently, as irregular immigration, by the new Labour government, is the fact that Britain remains the final destination of immigrants, even though it imposes sanctions or unsuccessfully pays other countries like France, who still want to come only to Britain and do not stay in other safe countries, before reaching English shores. Without understanding or eliminating this magnetic force, sanctions and measures will continue, as will illegal crossings, for an indefinite period, even by British law enforcement authorities and politicians.
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