THE SMALL boat gangs have no regard for human life and no respect for the way other people live. So of course, while people across Britain have been enjoying Christmas, those gangs have seized on the mild weather to make yet more money undermining our border security and putting lives at risk sending dangerously overcrowded dinghies across the Channel.
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For too long, they have been able to get away with that evil trade. Over the last six years they have been allowed to build up a vast criminal industry along our border, stretching right across Europe and beyond, with manufacturing and supply chains for the boats, illegal finance networks to take payments, and extensive advertising operations full of false promises.
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Their desire to profit from human misery has no limit and no conscience. Pay extra and you get a life jacket – even though it is fake and wouldn’t keep anyone afloat. Pay less and you take your chances on a dinghy with 70 people on board – where so many women and children have been crushed to death this year.
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Failure to stop the gangs taking hold in recent years has left our border security far too dependent on how many days of good weather there are in the Channel for them to organise their boat crossings. That is why this Government will not rest until we have broken the business model of the smuggling gangs and strengthened our borders once more.
