GB News star Andrew Pierce has bemoaned Britain’s migrant crisis after a damning new study laid bare the issue.
Research led by Oxford University experts found that there are up to 745,000 illegal migrants in the UK.
The matter was discussed on GB News, with Andrew Pierce clashing with political commentator Nigel Nelson.
“This is political manna from heaven for Nigel Farage and Reform”, Andrew said.
Andrew Pierce says illegal migrants should be shipped to France
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“The question is, what do you do about it?”, said Nelson. “We’ve go the Border Security Command set up by Starmer only just starting, we can’t expect a result at the moment.
“I don’t know if that will work either - the plan the Tories had didn’t work, but no one seems to have a practical way of dealing with this.”
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Migrants continue to cross the Channel GETTYPiers Pottinger then put it to Nelson that migrants should be sent back to where they came, but Nelson was sceptical given the potentially dangerous areas they may have originally flocked from.
“France”, Andrew waded in. “That’s where they came from. They were in France, just send them back.
“Send them back to where they came from. Job done.”
The number of illegal migrants in face pales in comparison to the number in Britain, according to the study, with 300,000 said to preside on the other side of the Channel.
Nigel Nelson disagreed with Andrew
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973 migrants in 17 small boats crossed the English Channel on Saturday - the highest number to arrive on a single day in 2024.
A record-breaking number of migrants have been heading across the channel this year - a total of 26,612 so far.
The figure is five per cent up on this stage in 2023, but in 2022, around 33,611 had crossed.
Sir Keir Starmer opted to scrap the Rwanda plan shortly after being handed the reins, a decision slammed by senior Tories.
Labour has pledged to tackle the people-smuggling gangs by setting up a Border Security Command.
"Far from softening the response, this new Government has increased returns of those living here illegally and set up a new Border Security Command to relentlessly pursue the criminal smuggling gangs making millions out of small boat crossings, undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. We are getting a grip after the chaos of the last Government’s approach," a Home Office source told The Telegraph.
"The Tory leadership candidates are clinging on to the Rwanda partnership, which spent £700m to send four volunteers. Perhaps it’s time for them to learn from their mistakes, rather than simply doubling down."