French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin urged Britain on Monday to open a legal route for asylum seekers in order to prevent people risking their lives by taking small boats across the Channel to England.
“Great Britain needs to open up a legal immigration route” because “at the moment anyone who wants to ask for asylum has no other choice but to cross the Channel,” Darmanin said in an interview with the RMC/BFM media group.
French officials have already suggested that British immigration officials process asylum requests in northern France from migrants camped out around the major ports on France’s coast. Darmanin convened fellow ministers responsible for immigration from Germany.—AFP
