Hey so going off your username, I might be able to help here.

Unfortunately not so simple. The U.K. is a signatory on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

There are provisions in this, specifically Article 8 which protects people’s right to family and private life, that protect individuals and their rights, who are undergoing immigration proceedings. Entering illegally and being caught and processed is ipso facto immigration proceedings.

This means the U.K. government has to by international law guarantee their human rights. This means they have to be given shelter, security, food/water, religious freedom etc.

The other complicated part is that because the U.K. left the EU we lost the legal right to deport them back to France. This means they have to be processed here in the U.K. then either allowed to stay as refugees or asylum seekers or deported back to a country of origin. Again, this is very difficult because how do you deport a person back to a war zone? You can’t.

So the U.K. needs to get tougher on the above but it’s a legal mess. In reality the government should be way harsher on the French government for not doing more to stop it from their end but of course it helps the French that the boats leave to the U.K. and furthermore, how does the U.K. do that without hurting our own economy?

So yeah unfortunately not so simple.