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Then why did they pay people smugglers to enter the UK illegally? Because the vast majority are not refugees.
VM - could you perhaps explain how you'd go about 'entering the UK legally' as a refugee? It's really not very easy unless you're in exactly the set of circumstances that ticks the boxes. You either get resettled as part of a programme (pretty niche, and if recent Afghanistan and Ukraine experience is anything to go by, probably about a year or two too late) or you already have some form of permission to travel to the UK (passport + visa for tourism or work).
Willing to bet that covers perhaps 1% of refugees wanting to come to the UK, many of whom have pretty valid reasons such as family here.
Method of entry to the UK is a pretty poor discriminator of whether someone is deserving of help, I'd suggest, especially when you look at how arbitrary resettlement programs are.