39 Found Dead in Truck in U.K., Prompting Murder Investigation – The New York Times

“If the lorry came from Bulgaria, getting into Britain via Holyhead is an unorthodox route,” Seamus Leheny, Northern Ireland policy manager for the Freight Transport Association, told the Press Association.

He noted that as security checks have increased at ports like Dover and Calais, some may see it as an easier smuggling route to travel from the French ports of Cherbourg or Roscoff to the Irish port of Rosslare, and then make their way to Britain via Holyhead. But, he added, that the route would add an extra day to the journey.

“If there are weaknesses at Irish ports or Irish airports, they will exploit them and use them, because once you’re into Ireland, effectively you’re into the U.K.,” Dave Wood, a former director general of immigration enforcement, told the BBC last year.

A migrant coming from Calais or Dunkirk in northern France, known stopping points, could use a fraudulently obtained European Union passport to fly to Dublin, where migrants describe screening for illegal immigrants as being weaker than at London airports.

39 Found Dead in Truck in U.K., Prompting Murder Investigation – The New York Times