Asylum seekers.?

Question

I was told that asylum seekers were to claim asylum in the first country they set foot in after leaving their own. So how come we get so many that have got off the train from france.
If this is the case why dont we send them back to the country they should have settled in.
Make it easier . STOP GIVING THEM SO MUCH MONEY

Answer 1

Well, I dont know about the first country law, but I do have a friend who is an asylum seeker. She came here 5 years ago from Afghanistan with her daughter, has no idea what has happened to the rest of her family, didnt speak a word of english. She taught herself english (in addition to the 4 other languages she speaks) and started volunteering for a lone parent charity. It is a common misconception that asylum seekers get 'so much money' have you ever tried living off of benefits? I know that there are many abusers of the asylum system... but not everyone is the same - just the same as there is no two british people the same. so give 'THEM' a break!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

If that is the rule, then yet again the UK government is not following it, chosing instead to squander our limited resources on foreigners, rather than look after its own. We can bearly afford to support our own indiginous population, let alone people coming here from elsewhere.

I strongly disagree with the policy here in the UK of letting foreign nationals into the country as asylum seekers or otherwise, and then asking questions later. Whilst their case is being investigated, these people are not supposed to work, but are given money to live on, somewhere to live, free schooling, free NHS, and so on, and every opportunity to simply disappear into the system. I know asylum seekers who run rough-shod over the rules, taking all the allowances and working illegally, living the high life.

As someone who has become recently unemployed through no fault of their own, having worked and paid taxes for over 30 years, I have first hand experience of the absence of support for out of work indigenous people in the UK. I am expected to survive on £58 a week job seekers allowance. How does that pay the mortgage, maintenance for my children, and all the other overheads a normal person has ?

If someone comes here without the right papers, and without the ability to support themselves, they should not be allowed in the country, and the airline or train operator or whatever that brought them here should bear the cost of returning them from whence they came. France, Germany, Holland, Italy, etc, refuse to take these people, so why should we ? Let's look after our own people for a change. If I went to their country, I would not get this kid-glove treatment.

Answer 3

There is a difference between asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. The UK has signed up to take their share of asylum seekers while illegal immigrants tend to dispose of their papers and that creates difficulties. On the last point I think I would say to them that if they do not give their country of origin they will be assumed to be from Zimbabwe or Darfur and sent back there. That might encourage more than a little honesty.

Answer 4

Under international law they have to seek asylum in the first safe country they land in. It is quite obvious that this country is a soft touch when it comes to asylum seeker's and it is something the government would rather you did not talk about as no one has any idea how many illegal immigrants are walking the streets in this country

Answer 5

We need to toughen up on what actually is a genuine asylum seeker. I would say that most wouldnt even qualify under the present rules but we dont seem to enforce the rules.
I think i,ll claim political asylum in Australia. I could do with a holiday.

Answer 6

Why is this country so soft when it comes to imigration the first thing to do is to put a stop to it now for say 5 years, the next thing is to round up all the illegals that are here and deport them, they shout that they are going back to a country that don't want them well to bad, the majority in this country are sick to the back teeth of being used as a dumping ground. This is only a small island France and Germany are many times bigger in area.

Answer 7

Fact 1
Most asylum seekers do go to the nearest country and stay there. That is why there are vast refugee camps in the middle East and Africa. Only a tiny proportion of all the displaced people in the world make it to Europe.

Fact 2
Many of the people coming over from France are economic migrants seeking work here. The UK has always relied on migrant labour for agriculture, hotel & restaurant work, cleaners, the health service, etc.

Fact 3
Once someone has been granted refugee or asylum seeker status in one EU country, they are allowed to travel to other EU countries.

Fact 4
The UK does deport people all the time. See the statistics yourself at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html

Fact 5
What money? Most economic migrants end up on minimum wage - or worse if they are working in the black economy of cash in hand, no tax, no insurance. Healthy adult asylum seekers and refugees are not entitled to work or claim benefits until their cases have been judged and then only if they are allowed to stay. They rely on hardship payments from charities. Children or the sick get a bare minimum of support from the state - much less than British and EU citizens on benefit would get.

People don't uproot themselves from friends and family, travel half way across the world sometimes in very dangerous ways, risk abuse and end up doing the worst jobs for the worst pay unless they are desperate, probably in ways we in the UK are lucky enough not to ever experience or understand.

If you want things to change then the answer is
- get British people to do the jobs needed here;
- British consumers & tax payers to be willing to pay decent wages which means higher prices/taxes;
- support international action to make other countries safer and more prosperous so that their citizens don't have to leave to get a decent life.

Answer 8

It happens because the immigration law and procedures in this country are so slack that any person could travel to this country and claim asylum.

I know of several families near me where they claimed asylum. They were immediately placed on benefits,given a newly built house, issued with clothes and mobile phones and didnt have to lift a finger.

Us working folk have to work pretty hard to make ends meet.

Its one rule for them and the rest can rot

Answer 9

I'd like to know what all these f.uckin do-gooders think when these asylum seekers take over this country!!! You won't be shouting leave them alone then will you...

Oh they already have!

Answer 10

I agree. We are such a soft touch which is why they get to hear about us and want to come here as if it were Eldorado. It's time that we looked after our own and stopped being a dumping ground for the whole world.