Is this Taking Back Control ?

The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has identified discrepancies in the recording of immigrants, who require visas or have been granted limited stay. Between April 2015 and March 2017  Britain's border control recorded 607 million movements of mainly British and EU citizens.

However, 600,000 people who were stamped in were not recorded to have left the country. 200,000 were stamped out of the country but there were no records for them ever having been admitted to the country. This means that the movements of 800,000 non-British and non-EU citizens ,who do not have the right to reside permanently in the UK, are unaccounted for.

This quite frankly makes a mockery of any idea that the UK has control of its borders.  How many of the 200,000 let in without check are terrorists or secret agents hell bent on murdering or seriously injuring our citizens and foreign guests? How many have come to Britain to work in the grey economy? We will never know.

It is quite clear from these statistics that our borders are porous and that the government has no clear idea how to get immigration down to tens of thousands per year. The overwhelming majority of immigrants and visitors come here to work and holiday legally and live peacefully, but it seems that all controls are based on recording  those who will gladly  and voluntarily show their passport or Id card when entering or leaving the country. We are controlling only the innocent.

There are dozens of small ports dotted around the country where there are no border controls whatsoever. A terrorist, secret service agent or people smuggler can easily gain access to the country.

How did the secret service agents who used nerve gas to poison our Russian visitors and one of our policemen get into and out of the country unnoticed? It seems to me that whilst Border controls were checking the innocents at the front door the miscreants were climbing in and out through the back window.

Many people voted to leave the EU to keep immigrants out and take back control of our borders. The way things are at the moment this will never happen. They voted to leave the EU in vain and for a bad dream. Trying to control immigration with current methods is a completely pointless exercise.

We need immigrants from Europe and other countries to keep our economy and holiday industry going so why make unenforceable laws to keep willing workers out. Why not concentrate our efforts on keeping out terrorists, secret service agents and people smugglers?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/28/border-exit-checks-records-of-600000-people-missing-watchdog-reveals