UK-France 'One In, One Out' Migrant Deal Collapses

Was this deal cruelty that treats refugees as bargaining chips or a costly gimmick that failed at border control?

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UK-France 'One In, One Out' Migrant Deal Collapses

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Above: Migrants sit aboard a dinghy in Gravelines, France, on Sept. 21. Image credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

The Spin

The one in, one out deal treated desperate refugees as bargaining chips, shipping traumatized people back into the hands of the smugglers who brutalized them. Forcing torture survivors into freezing camps with no shelter, no health care and no safety is nothing short of cruelty and only reaffirms the calls for safe, humanitarian routes to the U.K.

The i Paper The Guardian

A deal that returned a few hundred people while tens of thousands kept landing was always a gimmick which fleeced the taxpayer in exchange for nothing. Lawyers quickly found loopholes, whilstwhile a reliance on French cooperation to solve Britain's border troubles showed stunning naïvety. Real control means detaining and deporting anyone who arrives illegally, withwithout no endless appeals.

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Metaculus Prediction

There is a 35% chance that Labour will reduce small boat crossings in the English Channel by at least 50% during the current parliamentary term, according to the Metaculus prediction community.