The migrant had to be handed into the authorities for his own good. Despite what you have read in the papers it is not illegal to arrive in Britain on a small boat or in a vehicle for people seeking asylum. They only become illegal immigrants if they don’t immediately claim asylum. This starts the process where they will be assessed and a decision will be made about their right to stay or not. Any migrant who skips that part of their journey is and remains an illegal migrant and when found and arrested will be treated as one. They are the ones who are deported without their cases being heard.
It’s a Catch 22, the migrant has to enter the country before asylum can be claimed. Migrants who want to be legal have to cross the Channel. The French government did offer the British government facilities to process asylum applications in Calais. That was turned down.
People say they wouldn’t report an illegal stowaway but what happens when that stowaway tells the authorities HOW they arrived and where and with whom. I wouldn’t want to risk that wondering when the knock at the door will come. People can be found easier than ever today with all the technology around and all they have to do is tie it up with the ferry/tunnel crossing as well.
It’s a Catch-22 - the law mandates that you should not approach a stowaway but instead inform a member of the police or Border Force etc. - but if you do that and they decide you were negligent in not securing your vehicle, you get fined up to £10,000!
I would charge the immigrent £2000, £1500 for the fine and £500 for my hassle.
My only experience of migrants was when I was still working and the boss for obvious reasons used me whenever he could to do any uk bound journeys.
Probably becuse no-one in the office could speak English to get a backload each time and possibly because we had plenty of contract work coming to the SW from the NE, I always came back to France empty.
Not wanting to risk unwelcome guests I bought a very good padlock for the trailer doors and one time I was almost out of hours when arriving in Calais, so parked up and went to bed at the port lorry park.
On my morning walk around check I found the back doors open with the padlock filed off and lying on the floor. My only satisfaction was to have a laugh at the sight of their faces on realising that I was southbound, not northbound, but the only thing was that I couldn’t see them of course. 
I’ve heard a few reports that on arrival in the UK, rather than run away and hide, ‘stowaways’ ask to be put in touch with the authorities. Apparently they are advised to do so on social media (and probably by traffickers) as a means of getting processed and into the asylum system. And, logically, it is better to be housed- even temporarily - and be fed rather than be hungry and homeless. It may also indicate that said stowaway has nothing to hide from the police and is just a political or economic migrant, rather than one of the hordes of Albanian drugs-baron-cum-murderers that the Daily Mail writes about . . . . .
In this case as in all others, when you cross a frontier, you are responsible for what you take across, be it in your suitcase, boot of your car or wherever. Failure to secure your load is not allowed as an excuse. Personally, I would report a stowaway to the authorities. I don’t want to compound one mistake by committing another and I know the person will get a fair hearing . . . .
They would have to do that to be treated as asylum claimants. If they “evade” the authorities at all then they simply become illegal migrants.
Maybe, I wish I had your confidence.
And wont get free money and a hotel to stay in
Hardly luxurious - what would you advocate? Regular pelting with rocks so that the Reform supporters are happy we’re not molly coddling them?
How much money do they get?
Just shy of fifty quid a week for everything. Not even as cash but loaded into a pre payment card which does not have wide acceptability.
Asylum support: What you'll get - GOV.UK.
Everything else:
The “free money and a hotel to stay in” is a consequences of an inadequate immigration system.
Bear in mind, most of us are immigrants whose circumstances could change dramatically overnight.
I love the line ‘we have over 12 offices across the world, find a branch near you’.
For one thing, ‘across’ makes them sound like Flat Earthers.
For a second, with the world’s land covering an area of approximately 150.000.000 km², that’s one office for every 12.500.000 km², meaning that China, the USA and the UK aren’t big enough to qualify. That really doesn’t sound very convenient for the average asylum seeker 
IAS offices around the UK, including:
- London
- Birmingham
- Ireland
- Bristol
- Hounslow
- Manchester
- Liverpool
- Aberdeen
- Edinburgh
- Newcastle
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Belfast
- Glasgow
- Middlesbrough
(Possibly not many refugees trying to claim asylum into China.)
More pro bono help for asylum seekers in UK
(Posting just in case readers need someone to help with a stowaway.)
IAS is a body of immigration lawyers, not government.
Lawyers will be what the asylum seeker will need. Sooner better than later.
I doubt the people smugglers have provided any knowledge beyond “Ask for asylum.”
My daughter does a lot of pro bono work for a charity that supports asylum seekers. Most of her work is concerned with migrants who have opened a file but have needed to get more evidence. She helps those in that position to get back in the queue once their files are updated.
I am sure that there are a few on here who will caller her a woke lefty lawyer or some similar insult but I am very proud of her. The British press has done a wonderful job misinforming those who should know better. There is evidence of that on this thread. It’s sad.
Not me. Your pride is correctly placed. The world needs more people like her.