She’s written exclusively in The Sun, which I’ve left out the URL field because it’s The Sun. Here’s what she wrote:

We cannot pretend everything is OK. Not when criminal gangs are making millions out of dangerous small boat crossings that undermine our border security and put lives at risk.

We have directed Immigration Enforcement to intensify their operations over the summer, with a focus on employers who are fuelling the trade of criminal gangs by exploiting and facilitating illegal working here in the UK – including in car washes and in the beauty sector.

And we are drawing up new plans for fast track decisions and returns for safe countries.

Most people in this country want to see a properly controlled and managed asylum system, where Britain does its bit to help those fleeing conflict and persecution, but where those who have no right to be in the country are swiftly removed.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, there’s a lot of concern about nail bars and car washes - it’s possible some working there are under a kind of indentured servitude or just plain slavery, and car washes in particular are known for being used for money laundering (no pun intended).

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      52·
      2 months ago

      Attending illegal immigrants does not stop the problem though. As others have said, there need to be easier legal means for them to emigrate to the UK.

        • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          81·
          2 months ago

          If only Westerners would do the same eh?

          I’m sure Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Syria, India, the entirety of Africa, Korea, Cambodia, Burma, the Americas, Palestine and god knows how many other places, would have appreciated us not moving in and upturning their entire way of life and strip mining their countries for our own benefit.

          But sure, stop the migrants at the border. Then you can work for minimum wage washing my car. You utter ghoul.

          I take comfort in knowing that you will get to watch the quality of life in whatever ghastly western country you live in completely deteriorate, and as that happens your own ruling elite will turn their hungry eyes inwards and begin to treat you and the ones you love the same way they’ve treated poor people around the world. As a resource to be exploited, used up, and then thrown away. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving people.

          I’ll be in China, laughing my fucking arse off.