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Originally Posted by BenMcr

Asylum seekers and refugees destroy their documents for many reasons or leave their home countries without their documentation in the first place.

The argument above is that they do that specifically to come to the UK. That's what I'd like to the see the evidence on, and how that view was arrived at.

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You're stretching this, Ben. The migrants coming to Calais is what we're talking about. Tell me, why do they destroy their documents, as you've accepted they do?

Try this, then: https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/key...al-immigration

30. Another material factor is a lack of documentation. Some illegal immigrants will not have had documents i.e. a passport, when they arrived. Others will have purposely destroyed documents to frustrate the returns process. Some countries refuse to re-document their own citizens. Others, such as India, make it as difficult as possible.