On 25 March 2025, PCS and Care4Calais launched a new report to lobby politicians to provide a humanitarian alternative to small boats crossings.
‘Safe and Secure Routes: Refugee Visa-to-Travel Proposal’ argues for the introduction of a Ukrainian-style visa system that would not only prevent deaths in the Channel but go some way towards destroying smuggling gangs overnight.
Care4Calais, a volunteer-run refugee charity working with refugees in the UK, France and Belgium, has come together with PCS to propose an alternative vision of our asylum system – one which prioritises saving lives and protects the interests of our members in the Border Force.
It builds on our previous campaigns opposing the Conversative government’s inhumane immigration policies, whether that’s forcing them to withdraw plans to order Border Force staff to turn back boats in the channel or getting involved in a legal challenge to see off the Rwanda policy.
Please take a few minutes to write to your MP encouraging them to support the proposals within the report.
