Notably, not declared terrorists and arrested. That's a thing we do now, I guess, just not for racists.
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Unfortunately this is in tune with the public sentiment. Reform are probably the most in tune with polling on the issue and Labour are half-heartedly going along with it.
I'm generally quite pro immigration but the perceived unfairness of people skipping the queue has become a hot button issue / small fire which politicians can't reframe. I think they'll have to cut the gordian knot at some point and leave the ECHR. The asylum laws were great for the 20th century but don't fit for the 21st century migration patterns, which only seem to get worse with climate change becoming more of a problem.
In Australia they had their off shore processing system in Papa New Guinea which was absolutely brutal and I think people are still stuck in those internment camps despite the policy ending more than a decade ago. On the flip side of that the Australian public are the consistently most pro-immigration Western countries in the world in polling. If people feel that the govt has control of immigration then they will accept migrants.