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Originally Posted by Defiant
Simple you kick them out to the first neutral country they were in last. Or you lock them up for a few months to show them its not a nice country and then allow the public to KICK them back on the ferry's
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If it was that easy then the current government would be doing it, what do you think the current detention centres are for?
I think we really need to look through the hysteria that newspapers like the sun and the daily mail have created and try and remember why we have immigration laws in the first place. Many of the people that come to this country have come here in fear of their lives, theses people need to be welcomed with open arms, they need our help and support to rebuild their lives.
However on the other side of the coin yes we do have a (growing) number of people trying to claim asylum that do not meet the criteria to enter, yes theses people should be rebuffed and should not be allowed into the country.
One thing you have to remember is that many of these "bogus" claimants do not even know what criteria there are or even that they were to be questioned before they were let into the country. Many of these unfortunate people have been conned into thinking that they can travel thousands of mile to come to our country for a better life for them and their family's. This is not true, and our civil services (not the government) do their best to look after them and send them home.
The civil service can only do what the law states, this is a plain and simple fact. The government have tried to change the laws to help with the current situation but the court of human rights have rebuffed their plans. This is not the governments fault, there is NOTHING they or any future government can do. This is yet another plain and simple fact.
If you have a BNP man / woman standing on your doorstep telling you something different the I suggest that you laugh in his/her face and shut the door, because they are lying to you.
I agree with you that people that try to claim asylum but are not eligible should be sent back as soon as possible to prevent money being waisted but they do have a right to appeal, and wouldn't you if you were in their shoes?
The problem here is that some people in the country are unhappy about the way the asylum system is working in this country and the BNP have decided that it would benefit them to join the witch hunt to further their own ends. So far all I have heard is people repeating the BNPs promises to change the asylum system but no one can tell me how they intend to do it, this is because they don;t know themselves.
I watched question time in the spring before the easter break and they were in an area where the BNP had seats (cant remember where exactly) and the issue of the local BNP candidates came up and people there couldn't wait to get rid of them because they had made promises to people than couldn't deliver them.
This is a very emotive subject but people need to remember there are human beings behind the headlines