Illegal Immigrants In Hotels

[Goldengirl123]

What are your thoughts?

The NHS wouldn’t be ‘decimated’ if the government had voted in Starmer’s proposed review of the Welfare/disability system. We need to get people living in this country back to work. There are far too many not wanting to work. Why should we have to depend on immigrants when we have enough people already here to do the work? It’s madness.

I also lived in Spain and left recently and at no point did anyone ever suggest that Britain is a laughing stock and yes, we knew a lot of locals. And I fail to see what your dad getting beaten up has to do with any of this.

And no, I don’t think we need a vote on this. How come you aren’t asking whether we vote on continuing to supply arms? Do you think those people got a vote on us selling arms to those bombing and killing them? As we do around the world? Nah you don’t care about that at all. Your parents were lucky to get to live somewhere else and that’s fine, but how dare someone want to come and live where you do? Have you heard yourself?

When you say 'comfortable hotels' you may have a vision of someone in a double bed in their Premier Inn room. It's not like this. The hotels are 're-purposed', they're 4 or more to a room, there are no laundry facilities or sheet changing provided, minimum on site food (it's not the all-you can-eat buffet breakfast that you're thinking about). They have a tiny amount of money so they spend most of the time in their rooms

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/18/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-asylum-hotel-inside-the-uks-most-controversial-accommodation

https://www.helenbamber.org/resources/research/new-study-impact-hotel-accommodation-asylum-seekers-mental-health

Imagine how you would feel in these circumstances. Nobody is having it easy

The old people who got to stay at home and raise their kids while their partner bought a 3 bed semi on his wage as a post man? Bet they weren't working 40 hour weeks in the care sector to barely make their rent.

Misread.

Is this something you have seen with your own two eyes, or are you regurgitating statements you’ve seen online?

Well said.

Funding does not come out of the foreign aid budget, local councils are paying out of their own budgets. I live in the borough that houses more asylum seekers than any other and we are having our services cut to cover the costs. Some areas are now already no go areas as its far to intimidating. These are mostly all young men who we have no idea if they have a criminal background. There have already been young girls sexually assaulted very close to where i live. The government needs to get a grip on this situation.

How so?

It’s perfectly possible to create compounds with housing, heating and electricity.

With a medical centre and a school.

Why would this be unacceptable?

The women and children could be kept safe and warm. They would be fed and educated. I would even support their professing to be prioritised over the men’s.

we can’t come out of the ECHR because of the impact on the Good Friday Agreement . Also the ECHR provides huge benefits to the uk population.

You are describing economic migration not a need for asylum.

Not only benefits. That simplifies something complex.

Labour is less regulated in the UK than elsewhere so finding work with disruptor companies such as UberEats is easier than elsewhere. Thank-you David Cameron and George Osborne. The UK is a great place to do business.

English is an international language. It's one legacy of empire.

It is public knowledge that processing of migrants is slow here, that there is a large backlog, and that many legal challenges are successful.

We don't need to come out of the ECHR. We need to work with fellow nations to reform it, not go rogue when imperialist Putin and Trump are stalking the globe.

Many are economic migrant; young males looking for a better life having been targeted and hoodwinked by traffickers. You can hardly blame them for wanting a better life and to provide for their families back home. However, that is not what the asylum system is for. It's for safety. Why would you leave women and children behind in an unsafe environment?
The trouble is that when a system is so open to abuse, the people who actually suffer are the actual asylum seekers from countries at war. Had Afghanistan, Indian and African men not joined the masses of Syrian Refugees, then we probably would have taken in far more. That's the reality. It's the same with people claiming benefits unnecessarily (of which I know a few taking the piss). The real victims are those who really really need the help for their chronically disabled loved ones and yet there is insufficient to go round.
I get fed up with the sanctimoniousness of the "they're all genuine asylum seekers" brigade. It smacks of naivety. The money has to come from somewhere to support them. It has to be prioritised according to need. We also need to prioritise tax towards the NHS, social services, overseas aid etc.
The people smugglers are largely responsible for the amount of illegal immigrants. They are the ones taking vast amounts of money and playing with people's lives by encouraging them to undertake perilous and unnecessary crossings. Until the UK counters the disinformation that they supply and toughen up, then they will keep being exploited and trapped owing or having paid the traffickers thousands. It's not fair on them either to be left hanging around in hotels with nothing to do for months on end (although a few do work illegally). The system very much needs reform. It shouldn't take so long to process applications. Whilst their applications are pending, they should be allowed to work to pay for their own upkeep.

yet it suddenly became not complex to put up homeless ppl in Spring 2020!

But if they were frightened for their bloody lives they would!!!

What is this in response to?

What do you think happened to suddenly increase the number of migrants landing here from non-EU countries?
We caused it to happen. We voted to stop the EU having to take undocumented migrants back. The vote was in 2016. So if there is blame being thrown around it belongs to the voting British public.

Yet certain posters here claim they were never given the chance to have a say.

I also wonder what these people think Reform will actually do. Because I bet you Farage will do absolutely fuck all.

Social media doesn't help when you have people like Charlie Vietch, Dje Media, DJ Audits and the like are spreading so much false information and hatred it's unbelievable and people are gullible enough to believe it all.

Perhaps the way forward is to place these immigrants/seekers in the homes of those happy to support them. I mean, more than most on here would be happy to have one in their homes surely?

Not to mention sexual assault

Is that really your answer because you can't answer properly?

The asylum seekers that live in our vicinity don't bother me.

What bothers me are the people who are draping traffic signs with UK flags and painting swastikas on billboards and fences. St George crosses painted on mini roundabouts. That's scary.

That a day in the life of an asylum seeker article was a really interesting read, thanks for sharing

You seem to be talking about my partner's aunt and uncle one worked in home help for the elderly and the other one was a postman. How uncanny.

What you put in you get out. They bought their own house they saved made sacrifices had 2 children and just wanted a home to live in without relying on government handouts. Again it's about ambition and pride.