Hundreds people risking their lives to cross the Channel on the very day a handful of migrants were stopped from being flown to Rwanda shows controversial deportations are not the answer.
Few would dispute trafficking gangs need to be stopped and that Britain has the right to police its borders. But what have we become?
Dumping people 4,000 miles away is “immoral”(Church of England bishops), “appalling”(Prince Charles) and “ugly”(Tory MP and former minister Jesse Norman) when legal routes for refugees are largely shut.
