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Originally Posted by nomadking
We are an island and as such the overwhelming number of asylum seekers are bogus. Even if they have arrived via Heathrow, the airport they took off from is unlikely to have been under fire. Even when there is something like a civil war, there will be areas of that country not affected. It's a bit like claiming asylum in the US, because of riots in London.
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While people are effectively given a choice where to claim asylum we shouldn't be surprised that they exercise it by passing through numerous safe countries to get here.
Having said that, with the Greeks and Italians handing out documents and allowing economic migrants to disperse anywhere they like, there's increasingly little we can do about it unless we decide to act unilaterally.
It's as sad as it is laughable that right now the major commercial link between the UK and the continent is being totally disrupted by a few thousand migrants. How much money is this costing us directly and indirectly I wonder? Does anyone imagine that these angry young men are going to become model citizens if/when they finally arrive in the UK. By remaining in Calais and living how they've chosen to, they have shown they have no regard for the law and IMHO there's little chance they'll have any more respect for those of our laws they decide they don't much like in the course of time. How are people like this going to react if/when their claims are rejected and they're detained for removal? Having endured such a lot to get here they're not going to just give up so by admitting them we're just storing up huge problems for the future. It may be unpalatable but we can't carry on allowing thousands of unknown people onto our shores in this manner.