Fwd: Channel crossings and national security - a toxic mix

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2024-12-30 18:25

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Dear Milady Renoir,

In a speech to INTERPOL last week, as we report in our regular calendar of

racism and resistance

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the prime minister announced that he is doubling the funding of the Border

Security Command (BSC) to £150m and giving it counter-terrorism powers to

deal with what he described as the national security

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threat of cross-Channel people smugglers.

This linking of Channel crossings with national security risks the further

mainstreaming of hard-right messages of hate. In any event, border

crackdowns in the UK and Europe, as Starmer knows or ought to know, simply

make journeys more costly and more lethal as smugglers increase prices in

line with the increased risks, cram in more

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passengers and use more perilous routes. We know the BSC, like all its

precursors, won’t stop smuggling, which is a response to demand

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As the Ukraine and Hong Kong schemes demonstrated

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the only response to smuggling which saves lives is legal routes, which are

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to most. The only beneficiaries of border crackdowns are the companies

selling security equipment.

When politicians treat migration as a threat, anti-migrant racism is

legitimised. Linking the threat to national security legitimises

anti-Muslim racism. August’s orchestrated far-right racist violence against

mosques and asylum hotels was the product of a ramped-up narrative of fear

and threat, the previous government’s posturing response to a ‘crisis’ of

its own making: the logjam it created by its freeze on the processing of

‘small boat’ asylum claims. Starmer’s government has undone the freeze and

is slowly dealing with the logjam, but its approach to small-boat migrants

now risks stoking the racism behind the riots. In choosing the language and

tools of national security, Starmer feeds the pernicious narrative that

links asylum seekers with crime and terrorism, and in treating migrants as

a threat, he gives comfort to the far-right promoters of the ‘great

replacement theory’.

When mobility cannot be stopped at the border, state-instigated age

assessment serves as one form of hostile internal bordering used on young

unaccompanied migrants to control access to services, and in some cases to

prosecute

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children for immigration offences. Read Rachel Rosen and S.Khan’s seminal

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