UK figure for 2018 was 9,474 of those 5,677 were non EU citizens.
The French figure was still well over 20,000.
The disparity is huge.
In both cases they are numbers detained and subsequently deported so don't include the wandering migrants.
The French point is the UK is a soft touch which is why these folks are entering France in the first place.
I'm just saying think of it from their point of view.
These folks really don't want to stay in France as the French "do their bit" to detain/deport and prevent them working/housing/benefits.
If the UK "did their bit" effectively these folks wouldn't even be in France as the UK would be as unwelcoming economically as France.
These economic migrants aren't so desperate to get to Belgium, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal etc.
Why not....?
If you were French surely you'd be furious that you have hoards of these migrants in your country and costing you money etc just because the UK can't get its act together.
I started wondering a while ago why these migrants were so desperate to reach the UK?
It starts to make some sense if you listen to the French point of view.
It looks like the migrants view is the UK is a soft touch and if you make it here there's little chance of being caught or kicked out.
You don't need detention centres, migrant camps, extra police, coastguard, surveillance aircraft etc.
You just need to introduce some simple laws.
We must look mad.
We give the French 57 million to help with extra policing costs.
Or
We could spend two shillings and six pence making some simple changes to our legislation.