I have held back on this long enough. The people who died, died attempting to commit an illegal act, and that is to say they were attempting to enter a country illegally. I am not in favour of allowing any asylum seekers in, but these people are arguably worse. They obviously had the money to pay people traffickers, but instead of investing it into their country's economy they decided to come and live in the land of milk and honey. I do not wish any harm on anyone, but if any person decides to commit a crime and suffers as a result, then perhaps a lesson has been learned.
At long last, the dumping of crocodile tears. I doubt it will stop them coming. They'll just need to check the lorry before they get in and make sure it can be opened from the inside and that they have the tools to break out.
We laugh at Trump wanting to build a wall. Are we still laughing? Will we still be laughing if the illegal immigrants into Essex had got out of the lorry and dispersed, never to be found again? Remember, we don't know what is the percentage detection rate. If there are 10,000 lorries coming into Britain per day and 2% of those lorries contain illegal immigrants (say an average of 30 such immigrants) , and the detection rate is only 2% of all immigrant-containing lorries, that's practically near enough 2 lorry-loads of immigrants getting through undetected - that's 60 immigrants - per day - that's about 20,000 pr annum - to add to the ever-growing number washing dishes, opening a takeaway in a hole in the wall or driving us to some place in their Uber?
You may well ask how an earth can a lorry with 30 immigrants hiding inside get past customs? Is it such high technology to use some scanning device to check for life inside the lorry and, if so, open the door to see whether it's animals or immigrants or the last few stragglers returning from their Thomas Cook holiday?