Perhaps too many Daily Mail, Express and Torygraph readers here for actual empathy....
Glad it was different when the Kinder transport happened during WW2 and when we also welcomed every race and colour to fight for us.
Just what is wrong with an economic migrant? People have been coming here legally to improve their lot from around the world for years and no-one labels them as 'economic migrants' as if it is a dirty word.
The legal routes are congested and very limited due to politicians advancing the immigration issue as a vote-winner and producing failed policy after failed policy to try and do something about it.
This myth that they all want to scrounge on the dole is just that - look to our British yoof for that ingrained attitude - most incomers want to work.
Someone wrote to a national paper recently saying that if you just paid the cost of a boat or plane ticket for everyone that wanted to come to UK, it would be cheaper than Priti's policy and put the people traffickers out of work overnight.