The immigration related clown show continues

Thet are taking the money but providing nothing.

What do you propose we do instead of funding the French? Our natural borders are our shores. If we want the French to police our borders for us by preventing migrants from leaving their shores, we gotta pay them, right? I expect it's quite expensive, are we sure our funding is adequate? France owes us nothing, we're not even a fellow EU member state.

I see today that the ‘next round of funding’ is due to the French to ‘stop the boats’- cue a new performative ‘initiative’ to use nets. And you can bet our useless government will fall for that one and dole out more ‘funding’

I think its constituent-led, given the Red Wall origin…

Surely you can only pay back something if you earn a certain amount. In fact it references the student loan which only kicks in at a threshold. Many do not pay it back.

I think Labour need headlines on this and the amount of stuff they’ve announced so far eg the 300m change in law haven’t done anything at all despite it being ‘game changing’.

I think it’s primarily designed to be a deterrent, as it says.

For those who genuinely wish to build a life in the UK, and not simply claim benefits, then this would obviously address that.

I don’t have a particular view on it, otherwise.

O yes, thanks!
So this policy is designed to stop those genuinely in need of asylum from coming to the UK, not those who aren't?

It says ‘once granted’.

I'm confused - will people also be charged if their claim is processed and refused? In which case, why would they pay?

Surprised to see the following reported - curious to see if it gains wider support within the government.

Migrants should be forced to pay back the costs of their asylum claims once granted, the head of the Red Wall caucus of Labour MPs has said.
Jo White, who chairs the group of up to 50 Labour MPs, said the Government should introduce an asylum repayment system similar to the way student loans operated.

She said the move – where the Government would recoup the costs of financial support and housing – could act as a deterrent to migrants seeking to come to Britain.

The cost of operating the UK’s asylum system is currently more than £5bn, of which £2.1bn is allocated to housing and supporting more than 32,000 migrants in about 200 hotels.

Ms White said: “I would like [the Chancellor] Rachel Reeves to announce in the Budget that asylum claimants, once their claims have been processed, should be responsible for the costs of their claim.
“They should be expected to work and, a bit like a student loan, they should pay back over time the whole cost of their claim. That may also act as a deterrent.”

OK, thanks.

Internet access for staff in prisons is usually limited to heavily restricted and monitored internal systems, for security reasons.

I heard on the news that many prisons don't even have WiFi? Is that deliberate for security, do you know?

I am not sure your assertion is correct poster.

Do you have any data to back it up please?

The prison system has been crumbling for a long time. Even when I worked alongside it some years ago fax was outdated, yet it was the only means of communication to make arrangements for prescribing appointments on release - incredibly frustrating and inefficient even then. It's good that a start is being made on updating the system, but it won't be a quick fix.

Yep why not post without all that, nearly everyone else manages it.

Err, I wasn't mocking. I quoted the government's words.
But you carry on with your unfounded accusations and unhinged attacks.

just as we don't accept back some people we don't want here.

Yes we do. I think Shamina Begum was literally the only one we didn't and that's because she was eligible for other citizenship.

^Not just those systems but benefits and NHS too. It’s all gone to shit! and I don’t think there’s any coming back from it now.

They just don’t care if it’s not white men.

In the US, Native American and black women are murdered at far higher rates than average. You can guess who’s killing them. But nothing is said because they will protect minority men over women, always.

There was even a conspiracy theory that white men were going into tribal areas and secretly killing native women. Of course that’s not what’s happening, it’s always the husband/father/boyfriend.

But that’s a very hard problem to solve and since they are programmed not to call out minority men, they just bury the story. And women continue to die

Would you be happy if they were deported to a country and then released? and many countries will not accept back these people, just as we don't accept back some people we don't want here.

Why are they in the UK? Student & work visa's, partners of UK nationals, asylum seekers, EU nationals, tourists - people can visit and stay for up to 6 months.

More mocking, you think a largely paper system can be upgraded to an computerised system by non experts?

As i said, they are making a start which is more than the previous Govt ever did.

I dont understand why foreign nationals are in prison in Britain? Surely if a foreign national commits a crime, they should be immediately deported and banned from ever returning.

I was really shocked by the violent crimes of foreign prisoners, why on earth were they ever allowed into Britain? They were not doctors and nurses given visas that's for sure. The immigration and prison systems are both broken and it's just a piss take of uk tax payers.