What can the authorities do about rejecting these asylum seekers?

[pdq1]

http://www.guardian.c...thletes?newsfeed=true

[sandyRoe]

You'd wonder why people who had been selected to represent their country would feel the need to claim asylum.

[pdq1]

If we can't separate asylum from wishing to better themselves financially there is no hope.

[Buenchico]

There seem to be at least two assumptions in your question. Firstly you assume that the missing athletes are actually going to seek asylum (which is by no means certain). Secondly you assume that any such claim for asylum will not be valid.

If, for example, they're gay, they may well have a valid claim for asylum, as a quick glance at the Human Rights Watch website would have told you:
http://www.hrw.org/ne...rged-under-sodomy-law

http://www.hrw.org/ne...ts-workshop-shut-down

Chris

[bazwillrun]

"If, for example, they're gay, they may well have a valid claim for asylum, "

theres plenty of african countries they could go to (not sure which give them benefits and housing though)

so why do we need to take them here ?

what use are they to us ?

how do they benefit our country ?

[whiskeryron]

I don't care if they are seeking asylum providing they go through the proper procedure what I object to are the number of illegal immigrants we are told are here with no way of them being traced. I must bring up the subject of ID cards again, why do we not introduce them in this country what are the authorities afraid of we had them during the 39-45 war without a problem & to great effect, we now carry plastic driving licences & travel cards with our photograph imprinted on them I do not see any objection to also carrying an ID card & in the interests of security would be quite happy to show it when requested & people who are not supposed to be here wouldn't have one would they ?

WR.

[emmie]

Wr, ID cards can be faked, as to the idiot census, that was just a colossal waste of money. Not sure the answer, but stop the borders now. Put on as many people as it takes, at airports, sea ports, and say enough is enough.

[jno]

WR, there were problems with ID cards during the war: people didn't like them. That's why they were dropped. They were seen as a nasty continental thing, suitable for regimes who wanted to keep the population under constant surveillance, but inimical to free-born Britons.

[Zeuhl]

<<we had them during the 39-45 war without a problem & to great effect>>

Really?

Are you telling us that the Germans were incapable of equipping agents with a forged piece of cardboard?

Like many 'defensive' measures in WWII, the identity card was mostly about making people feel safer - not actually being effective.

The risk is that a new id card system would be largely the same; a high tech card forged by high tech criminals. Always assuming that some civil servant didn't leave the nation's database on a laptop on a train anyway.

[VHG]

France seems to be getting rid of the people it does not want.

Hopefuly another nail in the coffin of the whole EU / free movement debacle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-19194639