Asylum Seekers

[Hymie]

To all you xenophobes who fret about the asylum seekers arriving on our shores, I highly recommend you watch this youtube video which will tell you almost all you need to know about the current situation.

Although all of it is informative; of most interest to me was Rushi Sunak saying that he is bringing in new laws that mean if you come to the UK illegally, you can’t stay – no matter how hard you try. Of course, people arriving at our shores seeking asylum are entitled to do so, so any such new laws Sunak proposes will not stop the boats.

The presenter also points out the number of asylum seekers arriving in the UK in 2002 was over 84,000 and in 2022 just over 74,000, asking if you knew what the government were doing in 2002 about the immigration problem?

[royfromaus]

To all you xenophobes who fret about the asylum seekers arriving on our shores, I highly recommend you watch this youtube video which will tell you almost all you need to know about the current situation.



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[-SharonA-]

For those of you who want to know how many are coming daily, scroll down.

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/channel-crossings-tracker

[Hymie]

And as the presenter points out, many other countries are taking in more than twice the number of asylum seekers arriving in the UK.

[andres]

^^^'And many other countries' are having a lot of trouble with racism and riots .

[Buenchico]

Just another statistic for the xenophobes here:

The Daily Wail (along with the Express) would have readers believe that only a very tiny percentage of asylum seekers are genuine, with the vast majority simply being economic migrants. The reality is very different though, with THREE QUARTERS of asylum seekers either being granted asylum or given refugee status.

[Hymie]

So why weren't you all complaining back in 2002?

Or is it just because the Tories want to make an issue over their incompetence - and blame everyone else for their failings?

[William51]

If Rishi Sunak brings the law in it will help. We should be more forceful with expelling illegals.

[Hymie]

We have to process them first - and then deport those not qualifying for asylum.

[Old_Geezer]

"...people arriving at our shores seeking asylum are entitled to do so..."

And illegal economic migrants who pretend to be seeking asylum when they've just opted to leave a safe country to get here have no entitlement to even be here let alone stay.

[Old_Geezer]

The reality is very different though, with THREE QUARTERS of asylum seekers either being granted asylum or given refugee status that they clearly were not entitled to by an inadequate government failing to ensure the laws passed prevented such abuse.

[vulcan42]

Who was the prime minister in 2002? Asking for a friend.

[Iamtheoneandonly]

With the amount of asylum seekers seeking refuge there's just too many, there will always be a backlog, not just in the UK but all European countries.

[Hymie]

So now the xenophobes are claiming that the THREE QUARTERS of asylum seekers (who are processed and granted asylum or given refugee status) are bogus.

[Hymie]

And as I’ve already pointed out, asylum seekers are not obliged to seek asylum in the first ‘safe’ country they enter – so stop complaining about the people crossing from France, saying they should remain there, and apply for asylum in France (or some other country).

[Barsel]

//2002 was over 84,000 and in 2022 just over 74,000,///
Rubbish. Those figures are the wrong way round.

[Hymie]

Is your objection to the asylum seekers arriving in the UK, the colour of their skin or simply that they are foreigners, the fact that the incompetent handling of the matter by the Tory government is costing the tax-payer way more than it should, or some other objection?

[bobbinwales]

Was more than it should? What should it cost ....and what should numbers be

[New Judge]

//To all you xenophobes who fret about the asylum seekers arriving on our shores,...//

Why do you so often begin your questions with an insult.

//Is your objection to the asylum seekers arriving in the UK, the colour of their skin or simply that they are foreigners,

What a ridiculous question. By their very nature all asylum seekers will be foreign and it's quite likely that, being foreign, they will have different skin colours.

//.. the fact that the incompetent handling of the matter by the Tory government is costing the tax-payer way more than it should, or some other objection?//

As I pointed out yesterday, at the current rate of small boat arrivals, the authorities will have to consider and decide 125 claims per working day. How do you expect that level to be maintained and (more importantly) why do you expect the taxpayer to fund the process when there are far more urgent matters requiring funds?

[Hymie]

Maybe we should ask those countries managing more than twice the number of refugees/asylum seekers, how they do it?

[Hymie]

So for you NJ, it is the fact that the incompetent handling of the matter by the Tory government is costing the tax-payer way more than it should.