The Brits will let them stay.
Via Daily Mail:
British special forces have re-taken a cargo ship hijacked by Nigerian migrants after fast-roping from helicopters onto the deck and taking down the stowaways in the dead of night.
A unit of elite special forces was helicoptered onto a cargo ship after four ‘pirates’ who had stowed away threatened the crew with iron bars and tried to take control of it.
Four migrants had attempted to take over the Italian ship off the Kent coast, demanding the vessel be moved nearer the shore so they could swim to Britain.
Around 25 members from X Squadron of the Special Boat Service (SBS) – sister regiment to the SAS – were then deployed and stormed the ship as it sailed in the Thames Estuary.
The crew of the Grande Tema, a 770-foot cargo ship on its way to the UK from Nigeria, found four stowaways on board this week and locked them in a cabin.
But they broke out yesterday morning armed with iron bars and brandished them at the crew who had fed and looked after them.
The crew quickly locked themselves on the ship’s bridge and sent out an alert to the coastguard in scenes reminiscent of 2013 blockbuster Captain Philips, in which Tom Hanks’s character is confronted by pirates at his vessel’s controls.
The operation lasted around 25 minutes and no-one onboard was hurt. Four men have been arrested under the Immigration Act and the ship taken to the Port of Tilbury, where is arrived just after 4am this morning.
Essex Police said it had secured the vessel and detained four men under the Immigration Act, and no-one on board had been injured.
The force said: ‘The vessel was boarded and secured shortly after 11pm on Friday December 21 and will now be brought safely into dock at the Port of Tilbury.’