Why is the public directing their anger at the individual asylum seeker that arrives at the shore…

It isn't illegal to enter a country to claim asylum.

Because feelings. You don’t want people putting up tents in your garden.
You don’t want your neighbour to wander in when your front door door is open, and sit in your kitchen.
You don’t want your mother in law to look through your bedside table.
Boundaries, and feelings.

univited guests make people very uncomfortable.

its not rocket science.

Makes no odds. Public purse supports them either way.

Why are they all “poor souls”? You don’t know that.

The people-trafficking gangs who make a fortune by endangering the lives of desperate people.

They are the ones to blame, not the poor souls who risk their desperate lives in the hope of a better future.

It’s also a slap in the face to the welcoming country when arrivals commit crimes, be they minor (spitting) large (stealing) or hideous (sexual offences).

It’s all very well to say we have our “own” criminals. but do we really need to accommodate more? And most we have no idea of background and whether they are not fleeing hardship but escaping justice.

Ditto

I can be angry at the smugglers, the economic migrants, and the politicians and lawyers -- simultaneously!

For what feels like the millionth time, asylum seekers are not entitled to claim benefits.

Which is?

Because xenophobes are too narrow-minded to see the bigger picture.

What's the difference?

He's still turned up illegally

Hope that helps.

And also what @ColdSaladssaid. It's an absolute piss take.

Because they make the choice to come. They pay the smugglers. They claim the benefits and take the hotel rooms.

Because the 20 year old man is not an asylum seeker and is actually an economic migrant who may or may not come from a country with the same cultural values?

Hope this helps.

Well, the impression I get is that they believe that most of them aren´t asylum seekers, just economic immigrants who want to get on the UK gravy train which just isn´t available in any of the previous countries they have travelled through.

I don't think people are angry at the individuals (maybe they are I'm not an expert), but what I think they can't cope with is the sheer volume of people.

If once a year a desperately struggling family washed up ashore I think people would be absolutely horrified at their situation and actually be desperate to help them. However when it's 31,000 people in small boats so far this year then it quickly becomes overwhelming and a huge problem. People who may be from a very different culture, where women may be treated as second class citizens, who may have had difficult and traumatic lives with all the issues that brings, who may not speak English, who have no identification......the possible issues go on and on. That's of course not to say that many aren't well educated people who just want to make a future for themselves and their families or people that have just had to escape terrible places.

The problem is we can't afford to look after out own people, the NHS is falling apart, no one can afford housing, get a dentist, university now means huge debt. It's hard for people to want to give a warm welcome to huge numbers of people from other countries when you feel like you're already really struggling in your own country.

I think also the question is, why the UK when there are lots of safe countries in between? I don't believe for one second that the people smugglers demand they go all the way to the UK and insist they don't stop at any point before that. Much more likely that the smugglers will agree to take them to the UK, make them pay and then dump them at some point before they ever get here - and then they have to find someone else and pay again.

You've not seen people on the news being interviewed by reporters...faces obscured... saying they want to make it to the UK for the better benefits here?

Because I have.
They are either told that is the case by those that came before them, or by traffickers.

Either way.. its not our responsibility to take on everyone in the world who thinks this would be a better place to live. I fancy Canada but I'm pretty sure I cant unilaterally decide that and turn up.

I don't think people are angry at asylum seekers for coming. I think they are angry when their housing + benefits are being paid for by the taxpayer.

Picture yesterday of people pushing a boat back as it arrives.
Can't blame them. Got a joke now.
They wouldn't like it if we keep pitching up on dinghy.

Canarys didn't want tourism last year and that was for people paying for a break, not trying to live there.

Because a lot of people have no critical thinking skills I guess.

It's all on tiktok, no need to look on a government website. And I think the anger is spread throughout, not just to the asylum seekers?

Some are enacting vigilanteism. They see the people as law breakers that the law isn't dealing with so are taking matters into their own hands. Some want to make the experience of being here unpleasant to punish, and deter others.
Some believe that if they destroy the arrangements in place then alternative ones will have to be made.
Some are doing it as part of a scatter gun approach that also includes protesting government, believing disruption at multiple levels is a stronger protest.
Some don't understand the concept of the game not the player.
Some enjoy bullying and terrorising other human beings.

It costs ££££ to get smuggled across borders. Then there are the obvious dangers of capture, crime, injury, & death.

🤔 the individual would have to be willing in the first place. Obviously from there you can fabricate any pipe dream....

I imagine that many people have concluded that if there weren't people willing to enter countries illegally, there wouldn't be criminal gangs organising it. We're not all hapless victims. Ultimately we are all responsible for the choices we make.