A lot of people here are saying the problem is open borders, we need to control immigration, and sure, I agree. But this seems to miss the point of the piece: at the moment we're trying to control immigration by outsourcing the job to very poor, very unstable neighbouring countries. This leads to horrible cruelty and human rights violations. (Did anyone else see the graphic of bed space in the prison and think of the layout of an 18th century slave ship?)

We need a way to solve this very difficult problem which doesn't absolutely violate the most basic decencies that Europe has prided itself on since the Enlightenment.