‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/people-sent-back-france-uk-one-in-one-out-scheme

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 281d (2 replies)

Don't get what's happening - so he's being chased by people smugglers in France? Or was he just attacked on the streets in paris unrelated?

Sounds like it's France's problem, I don't see how it's ours.

rah@hilariouschaos.com · 2 pts · 281d (1 reply)

Don’t get what’s happening - so he’s being chased by people smugglers in France? Or was he just attacked on the streets in paris unrelated?

Who knows. Shit article.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 280d

true. At least it wasn't the Canary this time

rah@hilariouschaos.com · 2 pts · 281d (3 replies)

Still mystified by the silence from the media on why these people are trying to get to the UK. Four people and only one motivation is discussed: for the person to be with their brother. Pathetic reportage.

ReCursing@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 281d

Because if they reported that there were reasons other than free TVs and five star hotels (both lies anyway) the far right would get all pouty

DaiDactylos@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 281d (1 reply)

Has anyone questioned why the whole "free house, free TV, front of the queue" stuff - abject bollocks to anyone with even the tiniest sliver of knowledge - might act as an attractant when relayed as fact by the usual suspects? I know that it's way too late to be starting now, but that means it's only the second best time to do so. Tell the poor sods the truth: you can't work, you're given pocket money; you're shoved into any available accommodation at the lowest possible cost (except to the private sector landlords); you're likely to get shunted around at a moments notice, etc.

If the entire local population of a given area has been radicalised to believe immigrants are a threat, how is integration supposed to happen at all, much less be successful?

Labour Party, my arse.

rah@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 280d

the whole “free house, free TV, front of the queue” stuff

I don't know what you're referring to here.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d

Come on, France isn't that bad.