Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Of course this is the point - Border Force can pick up most of the really dangerous folk from the passenger lists they get in advance a lot of the visible security is worthless
It may indeed be worthless, but not to the No.10
PR machine that relies on the support of the Daily Mail, Express and Telegraph readers and they want to see (to borrow a term from another thorny debate) an "American style" immigration system that was, and may still be there to inconvenience legitimate international visitors arriving in the USA.