4 confirmed dead after migrant boat capsizes in English Channel
NBCNov 25, 2022
The Facts
At least four migrants crossing the English Channel from France have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Kent, England near Dungeness. A search and rescue operation involving helicopters and lifeboats began at around 3 am Wednesday, with 43 people rescued.
The British Coast Guard — as well as a Royal Navy patrol boat, a French Navy Helicopter, and a French fishing boat — helped evacuate the passengers. Volunteer lifeboats were also dispatched along the Kent coastline and Dungeness.
The Spin
Right narrative
The only beneficiaries of this human trafficking scheme are the criminals who profit from sending migrants across dangerous waters. Illegal immigration into England doesn't benefit the migrants or the British taxpayers who bare the financial costs of housing them. Sunak's plan to end these crossings is the only viable solution.
Left narrative
While an argument can be made in favor of sending Albanians, in particular, back, Sunak's asylum system reconfiguration plan is neither sympathetic nor actionable. Ideas such as patrolling French coasts with "boots on the ground" or the failed Rwandan plan are ridiculous, and the many real asylum seekers among these arrivals deserve better than what the government has proposed so far.
