Perhaps the most striking thing about Britain’s immigration system is that it works for no one. It is deeply painful and cruel for those having to interact with it, expensive to the taxpayers funding it, and damaging to the UK’s reputation. Even on the stringent, incoherent terms set by the UK government itself, current policy is failing miserably to achieve its aims. After all, channel boat crossings trebled year on year from 2020 to 2021 – from 8,417 to 28,381 according to the Home Office’s own statistics – and continue to rise in 2022. The current system can be accurately described as a mos…