Calais and the Migrants

Even to me, it seems cheeky to expect British help with this. 

Listening to the radio earlier today, the problem is neither ours or France, in fact these economic migrants which is what they are generally enter Europe via Italy after traveling by boat from one of the African states. And then travel through Europe to Calais. As border control is now almost non existent across Europe, the rest of the European states couldn't care less about the migrants passing through their countries as they know the migrants are not stopping. The whole idea of being a genuine asylum seeker, is that you claim asylum in the first safe country you arrive in. A genuine asylum seeker will be someone who is being persecuted in their own country. No one entering this country from Calais are genuine asylum seekers otherwise they would have claimed it in any of the several countries they traveled through.

Europe as a whole should deal with this, as it is Europe which decided to open up its borders.

Thats actually a very interesting point - so why can't the UK remove them when they are found on UK soil? Is it because they didn't mutter those words "Asylum" ?

Can anyone shed any light on this?

The UK can and does remove illegal immigrants when it finds them.  The ConDems have cut back on Customs staff, though, so perhaps fewer checks at our borders are done and they're done less rigorously. 

An illegal immigrant who gets past the border checks would be much more likely to work in the black economy for an exploitative employer (eg one of the gang masters who sent Chinese workers out to pick cockles and drown) than in decent, properly documented employment.  Whether they and their employers get caught depends on luck and how many government agencies are prepared to put the effort into finding them.    

Whilst i accept they often find immigrants and illegal workers, they are often released and told to report to a local police station until the papers are sorted to remove them from the Country.

Guess what - they abscond again and dont report to the Police and the time, energy and effort to finding them is wasted!

Its a ludicrous situation - if a migrant or illegal worker is found, send them back whence they came the same day, very least hold on to them and make applications to whoever and whatever is needed to get them out on an urgent basis.