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Originally Posted by Taf
Crossing several borders, travelling through places you would be safe but not wanting to stay there, is not the definition of an asylum seeker. It is the definiton of an economic migrant, hellbent on getting to where they think they will be relatively rich at the expense of the people there.
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In many cases the Asylum seeker is not choosing to come to the UK ,it is simply where they are placed by the agent that moved them , legally or illegally .It's also worth pointing out that they are not choosing to leave their country of birth .Most have very little time to prepare for a journey of a few thousand miles and most of those who end up in the UK are here because of the decisions of other people not themselves .Those that do choose to come here do so because they already speak the language (don't forget that most African countries have English as their second language) ,they also see the UK as a tolerant country that will respect their human rights .Your belief that asylum seekers are simply migrating to live on our benefits system is quite simply wrong .
I believe that the EU as a whole should take more responsibility in dealing with these migrants as dumping them into Germany(150,000 applicants) France (60,000 applicants)Sweden (55,000 applicants) Turkey 50,000 applicants) UK (25,000 applicants) is unfair to those countries .You will also note that those figures show the UK has far fewer claims for asylum than other EU countries .
Have a read of this it may enlighten you with a few facts
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/internation...otheuk/#accept
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Originally Posted by techguyone
Correct, people like mrmistoffelees should go get an atlas, last time I looked the UK wasn't anywhere near Africa/middle East, unless the geography has changed a bit when I was asleep...
You claim asylum in the first safe place you come across, you don't cherry pick. There that wasn't hard to understand was it. 
Only a complete gormless idiot wouldn't make the correlation that they're coming here to max out everything possible. |
And only a complete gormless idiot would say that claiming asylum in the first safe place you arrive means you stay in that place ,Italy and Greece are facing massive hardship because of the Dublin regulation which states that "
that the first Member State where finger prints are stored or an asylum claim is lodged is responsible for a person's asylum claim" although it has to be said that many countries including Greece and Italy have stopped using the Dublin Regulation because it is unfair to the country ,unfair to the asylum seeker and leaves the country taking the asylum seeker liable to prosecution under UCHR regulations
As a member of the European Union we are as responsible for asylum seekers that enter European borders as any other country