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> And so it goes, until someone advises them to go to Ireland, where they can walk over the border to the UK, as in Northern Ireland.

This is absurd. The problem is the exact opposite, nearly all IPAs in Ireland come from the UK via the common travel area. Ireland is not in Schengen and is not reachable from the continent by small boat, so there is negligible migrant flow in the opposite direction.