[immigration] here's a more simplistic solution

David Rennie, in the Telegraph, writes of Geoff Hoon’s theory that the immigration problem can be solved by upping development aid to Africa, thereby narrowing the income gap. Rennie concludes: But it is humbug, and wilfully misleading. Why? Because the gap between places like sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe is so vast that incomes could be multiplied 10 times in Africa, and it would still be well worth people’s while to head north. But I feel there is also the factor of the distribution of the aid to consider, i.e. it’s pocketed by the politicians. By all means give aid, they say, as they line their palaces with gold. What about changing the policy within Immigration and enforcing it at point-of-embarkation and entry?