Commentator Rafe Heydel-Mankoo has proposed an "immediate solution" to the migrant crisis following the latest Channel death, suggesting a multi-pronged approach to deter crossings.
The comments come after a migrant died whilst attempting to cross the English Channel in a small boat on Friday morning.
Some 51 survivors were taken aboard a Border Force vessel and disembarked at Dover harbour.
Heydel-Mankoo told GB News: "It's very clear. There’s no point in just smashing the gangs it’s like a multi-headed hydra. You take down one gang, and several more pop up. It’s not rocket science.
Rafe Heydel-Mankoo told GB News the simple solution
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"And you’re absolutely right when you say they’re willing to come over because of what they get once they arrive. A French politician said this years ago: Make Britain less attractive than France.
"That means getting really tough on the underground economy, things like the Deliveroo apps and other delivery companies where, for example, the app says ‘Mohammed is delivering your food,’ but someone completely different shows up.
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"Then you’ve got the curry houses, rogue landlords , people letting out properties without any checks, with ten or more people living in a single room.
"We also need to empty all of the migrant hotels. Temporary refugee camps should be built. Let’s remember 90 per cent of the people coming here are young men of fighting age.
"If those camps were good enough for our soldiers, and good enough for my own Polish family to live in during the 1950s, then they should be good enough now.
"And if you do that, if you insist that no benefits go to anyone who’s not a British citizen, you remove a major incentive. But we need to go even further.
"To stop the boats entirely, we need another deterrent besides Rwanda. We have the Ascension Islands, a British Overseas Territory that isn’t subject to the European Convention on Human Rights under British law.
"We could use old cruise ships, moored in the Channel, so no one sets foot on British soil. If they can’t be turned back to France, they go onto the cruise ships. Once those ships are full, they’re sailed to the Ascension Islands.
"Once they’re on a windswept island in the middle of the ocean, it won’t take long for the message to get back.
"The Australians did this with Nauru an island 1,000 miles off the coast of Australia and it worked hugely effectively. We should be seriously considering the same."
A migrant died crossing the Channel this morning
GETTYTuesday saw more than 700 migrants cross the English Channel in the highest number of arrivals on a single day so far this year.
Home Office provisional figures suggest 705 people made the journey in 12 boats.
This followed the previous high for the year set just last Saturday, when 656 people made the crossing in 11 boats.
Figures from UN agency the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimate that some 82 migrants died or went missing attempting the crossing last year.
