That is why we have an asylum process and for the Home Secretary to say they will be rejected before hearing them is out of order
Although I would like to agree with you re leaving the wife and kids. Let's say you have only one child. That is 3 places to pay for, 3 mouths to feed on a cross continent journey, with little/no money, no access to health care and no access to sympathy given some of the responses on this thread. It is a very dangerous trip, I'm not sure I would want to risk my partner and 2 years' life in a little boat. But hopefully I will never be in that position to make that sort of decision
Anyway, for get all that - regardless of who they are and where they come from, it is a couple of hundred. They are not invading us they are either a) looking for asylum or b) looking for work - hardly bad things, are they?
It isn't a couple of hundred because you only know of those who were caught. It is estimated that around 2,000 entered illegally last year and over 2,000 the year before.
By allowing it you encourage it and eventually people will die doing the crossing as we have seen in Europe.