The real victims of the humanitarian crisis at the Eurotunnel terminal (“Agonising search for light in Tunnel”, editorial, 1 August) are the asylum seekers. They are being portrayed in the British press as criminals and illegals. They are neither. The majority are not economic migrants and neither are they coming here to claim benefits. They want to rebuild their lives.We need to encourage MPs to have the courage to make unpopular decisions such as the introduction of an emergency policy so that people can be brought into the UK and their cases heard sympathetically (at present a person has to actually be in the UK to make a request for asylum). For the people who think that the UK is doing enough, spare a thought for Greece and Lebanon. The latter has 1 million Syrian refugee