BROKEN BRITAIN. Paris is said to be seeking to scrap the migrant exchange deal with London, pushing for an EU-wide scheme instead.

Many hundreds of illegal migrants, including more than 40 ’age-disputed’ children, who were returned from the UK to France under the ‘one in, one out’ deal have disappeared.

Paris and London brokered the migrant exchange scheme last summer and hailed it as a groundbreaking achievement at the time.

British people are being played

Under the deal, the UK can return illegal migrants who cross the Channel to France while accepting asylum seekers with legitimate claims who had not previously attempted to enter Britain illegally.

The scheme has proven to have a very limited impact, with around 1,400 migrants said to have been returned since it was signed in September last year, compared with around 32,000 illegal arrivals.

Evaporated

Moreover, hundreds of migrants sent back to France under the scheme have disappeared, media reported, citing figures provided by NGO representatives working on the ground.

Among them were at least 41 ’age-disputed’ people, individuals claiming to be unaccompanied minors, according to Maddie Harris, the director of the Humans for Rights Network.

Holding unaccompanied minors in adult immigration detention centers is illegal, and they are excluded from the ‘one in, one out’ deal.

The immigrant-overrun Home Office has denied the allegations, insisting that all those returned were adults. ’This is categorically untrue. Nobody has been returned to France, where their age is in dispute,’ it told the newspaper.

Meals on Wheels Deal

The fate of the deal remains unclear, with the agreement set to expire in October and neither side confirming or denying whether it will be extended. According to British media reports, Paris wants to scrap the current arrangement and replace it with an EU-wide deal with the UK.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has reportedly conveyed this intention to his British counterpart, Shabana Mahmood, and told her that Paris will not prolong the scheme.

Britain under Invasion

Under the French proposal, London would be obliged to receive migrants from all 27 EU member states in exchange for those returned to the bloc.

‘For our part, we want to move away from this bilateral relationship with the UK. We consider that France should not have to carry it alone and that it would be better to integrate it into an agreement between the EU and UK,’ Nunez reportedly told a French parliamentary inquiry. Let readers know what you think

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