People smuggler convicted in France found seeking asylum in UK
#r4today reporting BBC’s investigation into people smuggler ‘King’. Justin Webb totally crestfallen when told by immigration specialist that Brexit binned the data sharing agreement we had with the EU. So, we can’t now properly check. We don’t have access to Eurodac - the fingerprint database. Ffs.
Buck Frexit122Their shock still shocks me. How, ten years on, are we still in the position where key people don’t seem to know what we threw away 🤦♀️
stefaniabarutta.bsky.social51They were told at the time& were offered to still be a part of it, but BORIS JOHNSON and the Tory Brexiters extremists wanted out of anything to do with the EU. If Mamhood had any sense that’s what she should be exposing how Brexit harmed the UK, but because they voted for it, they are keeping stum.
Dreamliner Again41How is it possible that a senior BBC journo didn’t already know this? I’m constantly astonished by some journalists’ poor grasp of basic information.
Markeye32I stopped listening to #r4today some years ago, because I got fed up of starting the day getting cross. But almost every day I’m reading of its failings, its bias, its complete lack of understanding of the issues it’s reporting on. Time was it was an essential source of news. Not any more.
PhilT60230But, but, but......Brexit was supposed to help secure our 'boarders' (sic)!! Surely we can have been lied to?!?
kaybell27.bsky.social23Brexit brought us no benefits only disadvantages, and the true harm it brought continues to grow as safeguards we have shared for years are lost.
Natacha51One of the racist and transphobic BBC’s nastiest “journalists” thought he had another anti-refugee gotcha. Instead he exposed his precious Brexit as the problem for his rightwing listeners.
Alex Sowden13On the upside: let’s please appreciate any instances in which Justin Webb is totally crestfallen #R4Today bsky.app/profile/13sa...
Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈11After Brexit the UK lost automatic access to several key EU-wide security databases. The House of Lords Justice & Home Affairs Committee has since conducted an inquiry into post-Brexit cooperation between the UK and the EU on law enforcement & criminal justice and found it to be ‘sub-optimal’.
James Woodfield6Thanks to Brexit it’s now harder, if not impossible, for the UK to check the criminal and immigration records of asylum seekers. That’s not a side effect, or a sign of ‘a botched Brexit’. It’s a direct result of breaking away from the EU.
Steve Doherty5Yep. You could almost hear him think “What? Really? Oh blast.”
Mark Lawson5Brexit benefits! More criminals from Europe we can’t identify and send back! Feeeeeel the sovrinty!!!!
What's that you say? You wanted to leave the EU to improve control of immigration...? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sarah Murphy85The BBC’s delight at their investigation and report is somewhat tarnished by their previous abject failure to report the Brexit facts which led to these inevitable security risks and breaches.
Dave H10Chris Philp currently on today arguing we should be leaving the ECHR. He should be asked what further criminal database information we'd lose access to will to if we did. He mentioned Prüm, but access to that Europol and PNR all explicitly linked to ECHR membership in the TCA.
Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙52023: “it is evident that the loss of the EAW and SIS II is significant, as police officers at UK borders will not be able to know if they are missing offenders…. The loss of police cooperation tools such as SIS II, EAW and EIO is damaging to the United Kingdom” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Kate Anne1Surely Brexit was all about controlling our borders, making our own laws and protecting our fishing rights. It couldn’t possibly be nothing more than a big scam to make some very rich people even richer. Somebody needs to tell Mr Farage.
Monika FBPE1This was the official line. In other words, a lie told to public who is exercised by immigration, i.e. racists, to cover the truth that corporatism needed to free itself from regulations being imposed by the EU.
Ben1The hyper simplistic Leaver understanding of ‘sovereignty’ - bites us on the bum again. Sovereignty is not pulling up the drawbridge and sulking behind walls and febces. In 21st century sovereignty is enhanced by cooperation and treaties to project your sovereignty into other states
Cool G4Oi Farage & Co this is on you👇
“Immigration officers have told the BBC that since the UK left the European Union, it has become more difficult to check criminal records from some other countries.” Brexit made it much harder to control our borders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lizzy Price4Meanwhile Farage will tell us leaving the ECHR is imperative. But that would destroy our relations with allies, put everyone’s rights at risk & change nothing for ppl coming here seeking asylum. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/what-i...
Rachel Greenham2that suits the brexiteers. they never wanted to "solve" immigration, they only ever wanted to exploit it. this is a win for them.
Mike1But this headline is meat and drink for Farage.
