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Which is funny because if the EU is to survive, immigration controls will have to be put in place. Many countries are already demanding to control their borders. So when that happens, the UK will feel stupid for leaving, I suppose. They could've just waited.

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There are currently such controls for the EU, actually, and done on the French side of the channel. Those may go as well.

Only at Calais are they on the French side. They're on the UK side elsewhere.

Why the downvote?

With the exception of the Eurotunnel route, customs checks remain unaffected by juxtaposed immigration controls and continue to take place upon arrival after disembarkation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juxtaposed_controls

The Le Touquet treaty is a bilateral treaty between two countries and has nothing to do with the EU.

"control the borders!!!11" are one of the catch-phrases that make absolutely no sense for people with only a modest understanding of how it actually works

But I'm sure to some Brexiters brown people at the streets is the fault of the EU somehow

I believe if the UK could have chosen to control immigration from A8 countries, Brexit would have never happened.

I don't think it would have mattered if the UK actually did restrict immigration or not, it's more about not having the power to choose to restrict it.

Maybe, and not necessarily a direct control

For example, not giving unemployment benefits for those that just had arrived (though it seems this applies to all kinds of immigration)

You don't have to hate brown people (as you said up there) to understand that a system that gives benefits to people who have never contributed to it is not sustainable in the long term. And citizens from A8 countries are barely brown, anyway. ;P

I believe political correctness triggered Brexit, and will eventually kill the EU (not only because of immigration, though)

> You don't have to hate brown people to understand that a system that gives benefits to people who have never contributed to it is not sustainable in the long term

Of course

> unemployment benefits for those that just had arrived

Is/was that really the case in the UK? From day one? I hop on a plane today, take a taxi from the airport to the unemployment office, get in line, and I'll have unemployment benefits paid to me starting in February?

>brown people at the streets

You mean those of Indian descent that have been there 5 generations?

Ah those that speak better English than the natives and their kids have higher scores at school? Haven't you heard immigration ruins the country ;)

The UK is not talking about non-EU migration. The concern is EU migration. And that's very different to other EU countries. Germany and France are not concerned keeping people from Poland out.

Many countries are "demanding" that, because it's probably the easiest way for politicians to get more popular (right after "being tough on crime"). There's literally no need for inner border checks, as long as the outer borders are secure.

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