Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agoA BBC investigation has exposed the French and UK operations of a powerful and violent smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats.www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down12cross-posted to: world@quokk.auunitedkingdom@feddit.ukworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up147arrow-down1external-linkA BBC investigation has exposed the French and UK operations of a powerful and violent smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats.www.bbc.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square12linkfedilinkcross-posted to: world@quokk.auunitedkingdom@feddit.ukworld@lemmy.world
minus-squareReCursing@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 months agosMaLl bOaTs! oH nO! nOt sMaLl bOaTs! Look, rejoin the EU, give us complete freedom of movement and the “crisis” disappears
minus-squareZombie@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoBut they’re so powerful! With their… water taxi service?
minus-squareSaleh@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoI mean it is true that smuggling humans is done by violent and dangerous gangs. It is the same like with drugs. By making it illegal, the “market” is left to people willing to break the law and take serious risks. The solution is in providing people safe and legal ways to flee or to immigrate.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·2 months agoSorry, you DON’T want to prosecute gangs who exploit desperate people. Gangs who change huge amounts of money to provide death-trap boats to cross major shipping lanes. These gangs are amongst the lowest form of scum.
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 months agoThese gangs would be immediatly out of business if you could, you know, just take a regular ferry or the tunnel they made some time ago 🙄
minus-squaremurvel@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoSure. And they’re still absolute fucking scum.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, they’d just move to a different border.
minus-squareReCursing@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoNot sure you could miss the point any harder if you tried
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI understand your point . It’s just it’s nothing to do with the story. These gangs exist Brexit or not. There’s always a border somewhere.
minus-squareReCursing@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoBy that logic we should get rid of all borders, right?
minus-squareZombie@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoDepending on your political leanings that could be viewed as a good thing. Anarchism rejects borders and some forms of communism reject borders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_society#As_a_political_ideal
minus-squareReCursing@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSeems like a good ultimate goal to me
sMaLl bOaTs! oH nO! nOt sMaLl bOaTs!
Look, rejoin the EU, give us complete freedom of movement and the “crisis” disappears
But they’re so powerful! With their… water taxi service?
I mean it is true that smuggling humans is done by violent and dangerous gangs.
It is the same like with drugs. By making it illegal, the “market” is left to people willing to break the law and take serious risks.
The solution is in providing people safe and legal ways to flee or to immigrate.
Sorry, you DON’T want to prosecute gangs who exploit desperate people. Gangs who change huge amounts of money to provide death-trap boats to cross major shipping lanes.
These gangs are amongst the lowest form of scum.
These gangs would be immediatly out of business if you could, you know, just take a regular ferry or the tunnel they made some time ago 🙄
Sure. And they’re still absolute fucking scum.
No, they’d just move to a different border.
Not sure you could miss the point any harder if you tried
I understand your point . It’s just it’s nothing to do with the story. These gangs exist Brexit or not. There’s always a border somewhere.
By that logic we should get rid of all borders, right?
Depending on your political leanings that could be viewed as a good thing.
Anarchism rejects borders and some forms of communism reject borders.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_society#As_a_political_ideal
Seems like a good ultimate goal to me