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was the point of making the decision??** The fourth part is the smugglers. This is where Britain should be particularly aggressive ? but aggressive through law enforcement, not violence. The people making enormous profits from dangerous crossings should be the main target. Follow their money. Identify their organisers. Work with French police. Work with other European police forces. Use intelligence. Use financial investigations. Seize criminal assets where the law allows it. And prosecute the organisers wherever possible. A person paying a smuggler may be making one decision. The person running the smuggling operation may be making hundreds. Take away the business, and you attack the problem at its source. Finally, Britain needs to regain public confidence. That does not mean telling people what they are supposed to think. It means telling them what is actually happening. How many people arrived? How many claims were successful? How many were refused? How many people were returned? How much did accommodation cost? How long did decisions take? How many people are still waiting? And what is the Government doing differently this year compared with last year? Give the public the numbers. Give them the facts. Explain the difficulties. And then explain what is being done about them. People can accept difficult situations when they believe somebody is genuinely trying to solve them. What they struggle to accept is the feeling that nobody is in control. That may be the most important lesson of all. **A successful immigration policy does not have to please everybody.** But it does need to be understandable. It needs to be enforceable. And above all, it needs to have consequences. That is where the real discussion begins. Because if Britain wants fewer small boats crossing the Channel, it needs to stop asking only: **?How do we stop the boat??** It needs to ask: **?Why is the boat being launched in the first place??** And that is the question we will examine next. # Chapter Five ## Follow the Money If Britain wants to reduce small-boat crossings, there is one group that has a very obvious financial interest in keeping those crossings going. The people smugglers. They are not charities. They are businesses. Their business is selling journeys. A person pays money. A smuggler provides a route, transport and a place on a boat. If the journey succeeds, the smuggler makes money. If more people want to make the journey, the smuggler makes more money. It is a simple business model. And that gives Britain an important target. **Follow the money.** For years, much of the public discussion has concentrated on the people sitting in the boats. But the people in the boats are not necessarily the people organising the operation. The organisers can be somewhere else entirely. They may never go anywhere near the sea. They can communicate through phones and online messaging. They can move money between countries. They can use other people to purchase equipment. They can arrange several boats at once. And if one operation fails, another can take its place. This is why catching individual passengers does not necessarily destroy the business. The business survives because the organisers remain in business. ### Make smuggling expensive One possible approach is to make people smuggling a much more difficult and expensive business. That means investigating the financial side. Where does the money go? Who receives it? Who owns the vehicles? Who buys the boats? Who pays for the fuel? Who organises the launch sites? Who supplies the equipment? Who communicates with the customers? And where are the profits eventually moved? Modern financial investigation can sometimes reveal criminal