Rejected petition Bill the French government £2000 for every asylum seeker landed France to UK.

We are paying the French £50 million to assist stopping asylum seekers making the dangerous journey from France to the UK. . the French are pocketing the money,my petition demands the UK government discounts £2000 per landed person off our payment and charges same if landed more than 500 per week.

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To control our borders and to incentivise the French government into effectively stopping the dangerous cross channel passages of asylum seekers into the UK. At the moment the French appear to assist asylum seekers out of France and our government don't appear to have any ideas how to restrict this dangerous people movement.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The Home Secretary and the French Interior Minister have signed an agreement to strengthen joint efforts to tackle illegal immigration, but this does not provide for the UK to "bill" France in the event that people successfully enter the UK illegally.

You can find out more about the current UK-France agreement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-france-agreement-strengthens-efforts-to-tackle-illegal-immigration

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Revoke UK-France agreement to tackle illegal immigration: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/593478

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 6 August 2021
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