should the uk close its doors to asylum seekers?

Answer 1

Definitely. It's nothing about being racist. We have a small country and we have already been flooded enough with 'refugees'. A lot of these people aren't fleeing murder, deprivation etc. I know people who work in this business and most won't work and expect new furniture and fittings and homes. They know their so called rights. When there are our own old people suffering in the winter because of lack of help and there are people sleeping on the streets then there is a big problem. We should stop now and look after our own. A lot of these people aren't grateful for what we do for them. Many have murdered, raped and thieved from us. If I was in their so called situation and a country welcomed me in I would respect their way of life and accept with gratitude what I was given. I could write a book! I'll stop now.

Answer 2

I have nothing against asylum seekers but I think that the UK has definitely reached its limit with asylum seekers. There are plenty more countries that are part of the EU and with the US as an allie of the UK any of these other countries could take on some of the responsibility. People need to understand that this country is seriously running out of places for the British themselves to live let alone asylum seekers. I am not a racist or anything cause I don't have a problem with those that are already here. I'm just saying that what we already have here is enough.

Answer 3

To genuine asylum seekers I respect their plight but I'm sorry to say that we should simply "close the doors" because we don't have enough room. We are a small country and it's being ripped apart to make room for more houses so that's why I say no. We want some countryside left because in x amount of years there won't be any. Also there are too many illegal immigrants slipping through the net and taking my hard earned money (and every honest decent hardworking person out there too). Why can't they seek asylum in the country closest to them? Because we've got a soft government who hands out money left right and centre and they can't wait to get here.

Answer 4

No I don't - but I do think the government HAS to get a decent policy in place.

It's absolutley and fundamentally wrong to deport a genuine asylum seeker if he or she stands a real chance of being tortured or killed. This doesn't however, mean that we automatically afford them more benefits than people born and bred in the UK.

People rarely dislike or feel negatively towards genuine asylum seekers - but when you hear stories like Abu Hamsa's family claiming a fortune in benefits and receiving plush housing whilst retaining the rights to describe their adopted home as a toilet it really begins to annoy and generate resentment.

It all reflects the social system in this country. When benefits are so generous, who would blame anyone on trying to gain access? The government really needs to address the policy and ensure that those, and only those who need help, receive it - not those who cannot be bothered to work and would prefer to sit in a council house subsidised by the taxpayer and produce child after child after child. This applies equally to UK based dossers as well as overseas ones!

Be as hard as you like on anyone attenpting to gain benefits and freedom of speech rights on a false premise - deportation, imprisonment - anything rather than allowing them to proser for telling lies - but it is very important not to assume that all asylum seekers are on the take and out for everything they can get. Such attitudes breed hatred and prejudice and only encourages non-intergration.

There are a number who believe its important that the British white linagae should remain dominent in the UK and use anti-asylum arguments to promote their point of view. I am a white English man in his early thirties who accepts and welcomes the fact that muli-cultuality is an inevitability in this country. Why does it matter if the UK population becomes an amalgum of cultures and differing ethnic backgrounds? Provided tolerance and respect proliferates, this trend could make the UK the most diverse, advanced and prosperous cultures in the world. Its only becomes concerning when government policy encourages the view that all asylum seekers and immigrants are looking to financially gain from our social and benefits polices through a failure to look after its own citizens interests.

Answer 5

We did that to the Jews in WW2. We set quotas of no more than 2000 per year. We could have done more.
Asylum seekers are desperate, imagine having to pack what you can carry and run to another country so you don't get shot. All asylum seekers want is for things to settle down so they can go back home.

Answer 6

I don't mean to be flip, but we should never have opened them.
A governments first duty is to it's own people. A crowded island with stretched public services simply cannot afford to play host to the whole world, and risk the social strife that it could bring.

There are also many other routes that are been exploited to gain entry into this country, and I want to emphasise that it is not personal: governments do not, or at least should not, operate on a personal level.

We should not be blackmailed into taking resposibility for the citizens of other countries, notwithstanding the potential scale of the problem. Perhaps those that are keen to continue with a more liberal policy (unlimited largesse), should perhaps, think about offering a place in their own home to would be immigrants.
They would then, no longer, be dealing with a theoretical problem.

Answer 7

Yes britain should they come over here and throw abuse a gang of asylum seekers raped a 15 year old girl they murder our police and the thing that gets to really hate them is the fact the ones that cause trouble probaly only acme over the week before
The only reason they come over here is not to claim asylum its to take advantage of our benefit system
VOTE BNP

Answer 8

It may be worth pointing out that there is a little known regulation, little enforced also, that any person claiming asylum must remain in the FIRST country they land/board/cross into. This includes any territories of a country, and any Commonwealth.
You must also understand there are genuine cases of persecution and terror, and it would be inhumane under the EU Convention On Human Rights to send them back there if there is a genuine case to be heard.

Answer 9

Ever had any problems due to asylum seekers, I mean actual problems, you personally, save the ranting taxi drivers, the booze fuelled debates, and the tabloid crap?

Ever?

So whats the problem?

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Answer 10

we need asylum seekers to work in the nhs for example.but any one who comes over here and isnt self supporting after 12 months should be sent packing.