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by Veen 1519 days ago
About 3000 were forcibly returned between June 2020 and June 2021, although the vast majority of those (2,809) are people convicted of a crime. Few non-criminals are forcibly returned to their point of origin once they are in the country, regardless of their immigration status. Three-quarters of people who enter immigration detention after illegally entering the country are released into the population without being returned.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statist...

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> If anyone who can get in a boat in France can migrate to the UK, that is, by definition, uncontrolled.

So this isn’t true at all. You’ve just demonstrated that your own justification is false.