Starmer era il diritto di collegare la Brexit a un aumento dei piccoli attraversamenti di barche – BBC News

The answer is yes. To quote the most relevant parts of the article:

> Starmer said the UK had a “returns agreement” with every country in the EU before Brexit.

> The PM was apparently referring to the Dublin III regulation – which the UK formally exited on 1 January 2021.

> The regulation allowed some asylum seekers to be returned to the first country in the EU that they had entered, although other factors like family reunion were taken into account. Under the scheme, some people could be sent to the UK too.

> Responding to Sir Keir’s claim, Reform UK told BBC Verify that the Dublin regulation “made us a net recipient of asylum seekers” and “did nothing to make it easier to return asylum seekers”.

> However, the UK only became a net recipient in the period between the 2016 Brexit vote and leaving the scheme at the end of 2020.

> In the years leading up the referendum the UK transferred more people to other EU countries under the regulation than it received in return.

> Aside from the recent “one in, one out” scheme with France, the UK has had no other mechanism to return asylum seekers to the EU since leaving the Dublin regulation.

> BBC Verify spoke to Dr Peter Walsh from the independent Migration Observatory based at the University of Oxford.

> He told us that there was evidence that migrants were aware that the UK had left the Dublin agreement, which had previously made them feel at risk of being returned to the EU.

> “The impact of Brexit… makes migrants more likely to choose to come to the UK. This was a notable theme that came from migrants or charity workers, lawyers and so on.”

> While it is not entirely clear why the UK was a net recipient of asylum seekers in the years after the Brexit vote, Dr Walsh added that “some legal experts suggested that it was because of dysfunction of the special Dublin returns unit at the Home Office”.

> When it comes to why some migrants decide to make the crossing, Dr Walsh said there were a number of pull factors.

> “Family is a very important factor… members of the community, friends, diaspora, network – that’s the biggest.

> “Number two would be English language and then three and four Brexit and perceptions of the UK as being more tolerant”.

> As well as leaving the Dublin regulation, the UK is no longer part of the EU’s database of fingerprints of asylum seekers and irregular migrants, known as Eurodac.

> This means the UK can no longer see whether people arriving on small boats have already made an asylum claim in another EU country.

> In 2020 – the last year of the UK’s access to the database – half of the 8,466 people, external that arrived by small boats were already flagged on the Eurodac database for crossing the EU border illegally. Some of them might have made an application in more than one EU country.

> Peter Walsh told us that while leaving the Eurodac database had made a difference, it was impossible to quantify the impact.

> “We have no access to it any more. That’s a big deal.

> “We would know that they claimed asylum in another country and that would enable us to issue an immediate refusal – you are inadmissible, you have a claim in another country, or you’d been refused, and that would allow us to make a speedy refusal and then try to remove them.”

There is definitely a correlation between Brexit and a massive increase in immigration from Non EU countries …. Never mind the boats

Yes for the crossings have massively increased since brexit