Human trafficking is a multi-billion-pound global industry. It is fuelled by the desperation of migrants seeking a better life and the cynicism of those who are now adept at identifying and exploiting loopholes in western border controls.
One of Germany’s proposals is to explore copying the British model and process asylum applicants elsewhere
As ever larger waves of migrants cross the Mediterranean, Rishi Sunak has told European leaders that their efforts at policing illegal migration are ‘not working’ – because there is no shortage of poor people willing to pay smugglers for their ‘barbaric enterprise’. He has raised difficult questions about how the rich discharge their duty to the poor in a world with about 100 million displaced people. The old postwar settlement is utterly unfit for the new global dynamics of migration flows.
Taking in more legal refugees and deporting those who arrive illegally would break the people traffickers’ model and, as Britain’s experience with Albania shows, that works.
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