Anybody can get in anyway.
The UK has a few thousand miles of coastline, and you cannot stop a boat getting in, especially after dark.
This is the reality of the "free world".
So what you are basically saying is... whatever the UK Government does with regards to Border Control... in order to minimalise Illegal Immigration... is essentially pointless?
The only way large numbers can come into the UK is via conventional overt routes and those are all controlled.
I agree, but these conventional routes are definately not controlled properly IMHO.
All that limits mobility nowadays is controls on employment (illegal work offers pretty limited options, unless you are female and desperate) and the fact that not everybody wants to uproot everything and move to a country where the tabloids, and many people, will hate you and where everything costs a fortune.
Be that as it may... people are still coming here to the UK, illegally... in the thousands.
If borders are monitored / guarded more closely and frequently and if laws are tightened, it will without doubt make it more difficult for people to come here illegally.
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PS. Sorry for the thread drift
