Who’s saying they shouldn’t?
You, I thought. Was it not you who said they shouldn’t be going to the UK? Sorry, if I have got the wrong end of the stick.
Tim, once again 
There is a difference between people trying to enter the EU, and people trying to leave. Geddit? The EU has a duty to protect its borders, it has no duty whatsoever to protect the UK’s borders. Anybody who wants to leave the EU is free to do so.
They do not want asylum in France, many of them have family in the UK.
It might be because the UK ran away in Afghanistan leaving many who had supported the UK to a dreadful fate, and Shitty Patel and her Home Office have made zero, as in zero, progress on their relocation programme they proudly announced at the time.
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So it’s okay for Greece and Italy to allow migrants crossing the Med to drown because the EU is protecting the borders?
The migrants in Calais are in the EU illegally, or does that not matter because they are trying to get to the UK?
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That’s it, full stop Tim. And they have the right to leave the EU as and how they wish.
But is not like offering them a bag of sweets, a country does not simply offer unconditional asylum to people who have not even applied for it and may not be eligible. The first step is to accept their application (impossible if they have not made one), which then has to be considered carefully before reaching a decision on whether or not they are eligible, which takes several months, and providing them with accommodation and a living allowance while the application is processed,
Columbia does:
Tim, as I’ve suggested before, why not start your own topic instead of sniping at other’s?
How about “Are Greece and Italy’s immigration policies impacting the Calais crises?”
Then we can all discuss it and not end up muddying the water on the appalling behaviour of Johnson and Shitty.
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If I take the tunnel back to the UK before I even cross the channel I’m already there because the UK border force has a checkpoint on French soil. Why can’t France allow the UK to setup an asylum processing centre in Calais in the same way?
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Too much “marching powder”?.
It is one possibility that is being looked at.
The current situation in Calais is just one part of the EU migrant crisis John, do we really need a separate thread for each EU border flashpoint (France, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Greece etc)?
Herding people from across northern France onto a ferry and dumping them in the UK will not solve the problem.
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Tim, the opposite is going to happen, and the sooner the better. The UK border which the Brexiteers so wanted to take control of should be in the UK - I would have thought that’s obvious. In hindsight and in the light of Brexit the Le Touquet agreement was a mistake and should be abandoned now.
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Colombia is not offering asylum to all comers regardless of nationality though, which Tim appeared to be suggesting. Colombia and Venezuela are neighbours with a shared history, which makes it rather different from the Channel situation.
Yes, we do Tim. You keep tying to divert attention from what the UK is doing.
France has no intention of dumping anybody anywhere. Let the UK control its borders and stop expecting others to do the dirty work. That’s it, plain and simple.
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Not at all John, I just think it’s important that we don’t get so bogged down with the UK that we ignore what’s going on in the rest of Europe.
Well then START ANOTHER THREAD.
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Why patrol a border to stop people getting out?
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France has allowed Uk officials on its soil, and vice versa - think of Eurostar terminals!
But the UK does not want this!
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Agreed, the East German Government did that and it didn’t end well.