Milder because cloud and rain is lingering and through the course of thursday taking time to pull away but elsewhere sunshine albeit with showers across parts of west wales into the isle of man and Northern Ireland and windy around the far south west coast of devon and cornwall and further north, some sunshine, one or two showers and temperatures between ten and 14 celsius. Its time for your questions answered and in the next 20 minutes we will answer your questions you have been sending us in today on migration and what can be done to sort out the Current Situation as well as what is fuelling the growing number of people choosing to cross the English Channel on small boats in dangerous conditions. With me in the studio is our home and legal correspondent, dominic casciani. Also im joined by helen 0nions, Associate Professor Of Law at Nottingham Trent university, and harjap bhangal, uk immigration lawyer. Good afternoon to all of you and thank you so much for being with us. Dominic, st
milder because cloud and rain is lingering and through the course of thursday taking time to pull away but elsewhere sunshine albeit with showers across parts of west wales into the isle of man and northern ireland and windy around the far south west coast of devon and cornwall and further north, some sunshine, one or two showers and temperatures between ten and 14 celsius. it s time for your questions answered and in the next 20 minutes we will answer your questions you have been sending us in today on migration and what can be done to sort out the current situation as well as what is fuelling the growing number of people choosing to cross the english channel on small boats in dangerous conditions. with me in the studio is our home and legal correspondent, dominic casciani. also i m joined by helen 0 nions, associate professor of law at nottingham trent university, and harjap bhangal, uk immigration lawyer. good afternoon to all of you and thank you so much for being with us
welcomes immigrants. i also do not think it helps to ignore the problems that face immigrants and local communities. when society is overwhelmed because of poor reception. i do think that we ultimately have to think long term. why are migrants coming at such an enormous rate? that has to do bigger global issues there is the domestic issue, we want these people and find the domestic route in america should be one of those but it has to do with understanding global politics people are migrating because of conflict places like syria, ukraine, ethiopia and of course due to authoritarian regimes, lack of economic opportunities in the countries. that s why you have albanians crossing. these have to do with international coordination of her recommitment to to the extent that other countries can play a role in that and understanding how global economic development affect these flows in the long run. i know that will not help problems tomorrow, i
government but the fact remains there are a of single albanian men who are part of that 40,000 who have come across the channel so far. that ma be in come across the channel so far. that may be in response come across the channel so far. that may be in response to come across the channel so far. trust may be in response to some a fact sheet the home office put out today trying to make the case of albania and let me read you some of the facts. what they are saying is since may there s been a significant increase in the number of albanians crossing, predominantly men and more than 11,000 have made the crossing so by the home office calculation, taking may to september, that is 42% of all crossings, compared to 800 people in the whole of 2021. under uk law the home office has designated albania as a safe country which means it will not, in theory consider people from asylum from the country but in practice 7000 people have sought asylum from albania and the cases will have to be dealt