As part of a wider advertising blitz, the Home Office is set to hire a collection of Albanian influencers to dissuade prospective migrants from travelling to the UK.
Since 2014, the government has spent over £800 million on security and deterrence measures - as reported in OpenDemocracy - but this vast expenditure has failed to reduce the number of people coming.
In the last 25 years, over 400 people have died while attempting to cross the English Channel. These deaths were avoidable. Whether or not their claim is eventually successful, everyone has the legal right to claim asylum in the UK, and the government's failure to provide safe routes is the real problem.
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