The home secretary would do well to consider the inflammatory nature of his language, playing as it does right into the anti-immigrant narrative with its aspersions of illegality. The statistic that 94 migrants have attempted to cross over to Britain since Christmas Day alone speaks volumes about the desperation and insecurity that these migrants must be feeling. At this point, the crisis becomes less of a political issue determined by national borders, and more of a human issue. It might also be apt to remember that Christianity’s founder, whose birth many recently celebrated, was himself a refugee. Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2018 17:14 UTC