{"id":1314486,"date":"2022-02-19T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1314486"},"modified":"2022-02-19T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:52:37","slug":"priti-patel-brings-in-aussie-behind-australias-tough-asylum-policy-to-review-uk-border-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/priti-patel-brings-in-aussie-behind-australias-tough-asylum-policy-to-review-uk-border-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Priti Patel Brings In Aussie Behind Australia\u2019s Tough Asylum Policy to Review UK Border Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpriti-patel-brings-in-aussie-behind-australias-tough-asylum-policy-to-review-uk-border-force%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1314486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-632573012-e1645116030171-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Britain\u2019s Home Secretary has tasked Alexander Downer, one of the masterminds of Australia\u2019s tough border policies, with reviewing Britain\u2019s notoriously weak Border Force.<\/p>\n<p>Home Secretary Priti Patel has appointed former Australian foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer to look into how Britain can tackle the ever-rising number of migrant boat crossings in the English Channel, with over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/21\/record-28000-illegal-boat-migrants-land-in-britain-this-year\/\">28,000 illegal migrants<\/a> landing in the United Kingdom by sea in 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Downer, who represented Australia\u2019s right-leaning Liberal Party, was one of the people behind Australia\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cPacific solution\u201d \u2014&nbsp;implemented in 2001 \u2014 which entailed detaining illegal migrants attempting to enter Australia via boat overseas on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where they would be held and processed.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Australian authorities also stopped illegal migrant boats travelling from Indonesia and other Pacific islands at sea, refuelling them and sending them in another direction in a usually successful effort to&nbsp;prevent them from landing on the Australian coastline. Downer has said that he sees \u201cno reason why this cannot be done in the [English] Channel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-government minister will be tasked with conducting a review into all aspects of the Border Force including counter-smuggling operations, asylum claims, and immigration procedures at airports and ports,&nbsp;the<em> Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10520925\/Priti-Patel-hires-Australias-migrant-guru-bid-help-solve-Channel-crisis.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Record 28,000 Illegal Boat Migrants Land in Britain This Year<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RURbziChwd\">https:\/\/t.co\/RURbziChwd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1473262222113652737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Downer has previously praised Patel\u2019s efforts to try to implement tougher migration policies and called for Britain to push the migrant boats back to France, highlighting the success that Australia had with similar&nbsp;\u201cpush-back\u201d policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy advice to Ms Patel would be to introduce the \u2018push-back\u2019 policy without fanfare, and to keep the French informed on a need-to-know basis only,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-9979369\/Australias-ex-minister-ALEXANDER-DOWNER-says-UK-turn-migrant-boats.html\">said<\/a> in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo solve a migration crisis, you have to smash the business model of the criminal gangs of people-traffickers, and the only way to do that is to convince would-be migrants \u2013 who are of course the smugglers\u2019 paying customers \u2013 that they have little chance of reaching British shores,\u201d Downer explained.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s governing Conservative Party has previously published plans to deport and detain illegal migrants overseas in commonwealth nations such as Ghana and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Such suggestions tend to gain little traction with the public, however, with the government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/20\/farage-deploying-navy-to-channel-migrant-crisis-is-expensive-taxi-service\/\">forced<\/a> to embarrassingly drop the plans when Ghana\u2019s&nbsp;Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Twitter that said \u201cGhana has not engaged with the UK on any such plan and does not intend to consider any such operation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reports that boat migrants might be sent to Albania for processing were also immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/boris-govt-plan-send-boat-migrants-albania-will-never-happen-says-albanian-govt\/\">shot down by the Albanian government<\/a>, swiftly killing voters\u2019 hopes that the reported scheme would ever go anywhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UK May Deport Afghan Who Raped and Murdered Austrian Child, Fled to UK by Boat <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ofidQ1AkGW\">https:\/\/t.co\/ofidQ1AkGW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1480471740774076418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Patel has faced opposition from within the Border Force in regards to tackling illegal migration, with its former chief Paul Lincoln <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/14\/outgoing-uk-border-force-chief-says-borders-are-a-pain-in-the-bloody-a-report\/\">describing<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cbloody borders\u201d as a \u201cpain in the bloody arse\u201d, and Border Force officials briefing they would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10171419\/Border-Force-REFUSING-turn-migrant-boats-despite-Priti-Patels-vow.html\">refuse<\/a> to push back boats even if they are ordered to, supposedly due to the risks involved in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Public sector unions have also indicated their opposition to Patel\u2019s plans, with the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) which represents Border Force staff threatening&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/nov\/27\/border-force-staff-union-joins-fight-to-block-to-priti-patels-pushback-plans\">industrial action<\/a> if the Home Secretary proceeds with any \u2018push-back\u2019 plans \u2014 despite Patel warning that an increasing number of migrants will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/22\/british-coast-guard-facing-manslaughter-lawsuit-over-dead-migrants\/\">die<\/a> if they are not deterred from making the deadly journey.<\/p>\n<p>Patel has also highlighted the fact that many of the Channel crossers aren\u2019t genuine asylum seekers, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/channel-crossings-priti-patel-australia-migrants-b2017190.html\">stated<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;\u201cthe majority of them are single men\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delusional: UK Govt claims Channel operations &#8220;already pretty successful&#8221; despite record crossings <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0LtVpfLx6o\">https:\/\/t.co\/0LtVpfLx6o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1494960739869679623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart 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