Illegal Immigrants In Hotels

[Goldengirl123]

What are your thoughts?

You assume the thousands in hotels are all uneducated? None of them have education, skills and experience of use to this country?

This situation will always divide the country. But the reality is this situation has been going on for 20 years. Nothing will change, whoever is in power imho. Our PM is a human rights lawyer though. I think that alone says enough.

Odd for Ukrainian women to experience hunger, a lack of water and long dangerous journeys over mountains, forests and open water on coaches, boats and aeroplanes.

so if we check your posting history it will be full of concern for our "home grown" homeless people, right?

ukraine had a organised exit. The government evacuated people. European governments worked quickly to accept them and arrange transportation to get them OUT of Poland and Hungary before those countries were overwhelmed.

you can’t possibly think someone fleeing the taliban (their government) because the taliban want to kill them is the same. How is this logic even working in your head?!?

We offer a safe legal route to all applicants that are successful you know ? Great isn't it. Its not based on skin colour.

Dad, is that you?

Immigrants in Hotels there you go fixed it

I'm not reading the whole thread as the current stuff shown on National news is so depressing, flag waving ignorant people thinking they are doing the Country a favour.

There's a little hotel just outside my Village that had refugees in it in 2022-23. Men, mostly young men. They'd go for a walk around the Village in groups of 4 or 6 - which could be seen to be intimidating but, you know, they're just a bunch of guys out for a walk. Nearest Town 8 miles, no transport to it, nothing else to do. A bunch of them organised a clean-up of the local Church graveyard. No trouble at all. But every now and again I'd check Twitter for my Village name and there'd be lies and disinformation about "elderly in the Village carrying knives for safety". Utter BS. They've moved out now, the Hotel offers at best 3* very basic accommodation next to busy highways. Now the local Town FB page is full of people wanting to know which Hotels are being used, mob-type "lets go and protest". Flag waving, hijacking the Union Jack and the England flag - makes my angry.

Honestly, I think people hear "hotels" and are thinking holidays, feet up and relaxation. These are really the most basic bed, thin sheets type thing. People who are running for their lives. And yes it's men, young men, as always was - my background is Irish, the young men would go to the UK, the USA, for work and for money. This is nothing new. There are resources out there for the UK homeless, but generally homelessness goes hand in hand with addiction problems, it's not a superficial "give them a room and they'll be OK" solution.

If the Taliban wanted to kill me , I'd think France was the most beautiful country in the world (including the sleeping bag on the floor of the less than ideal camp )

Adding to this : I'd sure as he'll let my own life perish than leave my children there whilst I sailed to safety

Yes, immigrants are allowed to go on holiday, that isn’t anything new or unusual.

The government are now putting in place a process for dealing more swiftly with asylum applications and intend to stop using hotels.
Lets hope it works, and things calm down.

Let me guess you're "no contact" with your "racist" dad....

I was in Paris recently, they're sleeping in the streets.

So you’re saying if you were escaping the taliban you wouldn’t stop in the first country and claim asylum?

Please don’t count me in your ‘we’ and ‘our’ thank you

Apologies, you’re right. You quoted my reply to the person who said it.

Have you ever actually worked with homeless people? I can tell the answer from the ignorance of your and other pps posts.
To he housed, even temporarily, they have to make agreements on behaviour including alcohol and substance abuse.
It would amaze you how many choose to remain out of housing in favour of continuing their behaviours.
It's a really complex issue. Addiction services are overwhelmed but there is usually a priority for those who are in extreme circumstances.
It's not as cut and dried as many think.
Neither is asylum housing. My biggest bug bear is that there are private individuals profiting from housing asylum seekers.
Life for asylum seekers here isn't the plush life many make it out to be. They generally receive supermarket vouchers to support themselves on - including food and clothing as its of an amount even the worst off of us would struggle on.
This in turn leads to a minority seeking to increase their income by illegal means (not always theft or working illegally, but even subletting their accommodation).
It's a much more complicated issue than these threads usually boil it down to

I'd stop bloody wherever, so long as it was safe ! I wouldn't travel hundreds of extra miles and cross a dangerous channel. Who would !?

It is very complicated. It needs a lot of time and money and better organisation to begin to deal with thses issues.

Why then would you travel to France to claim asylum?

So that makes it ok to bring them all to Britain?

That's an unfair generalisation. Many people looked after Ukrainian refugees a couple of years ago and I doubt you or any of the rest of us know who is donating or volunteering for charities that help asylum seekers. Happy to be proved wrong though if you want to post a link with some facts and figures.

There is migrant hotel near me - it's got families with children in it.