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Illegal Immigrants In Hotels

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Goldengirl123 · 24/08/2025 10:42

What are your thoughts?

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Saeurcat · 24/08/2025 11:46

Fearfulsaints · 24/08/2025 11:05

I do understand this and as a mother of a young man, this is exactly what I would do. Send him as he is strong and adaptable. (He doesn't have a wife or child tho).

But I think our system of not allowing them to work, putting them in hotels all together, not funding english lessons or really giving lessons in our culture etc is bonkers.

As part of their application to stay for good they do indeed have to sit a British citizenship test, having seen some of the questions on there, there are people born in the UK who wouldn’t even pass that test

Roosch · 24/08/2025 11:47

Notagain75 · 24/08/2025 11:45

They are not illegal immigrants they are asylum seekers. It is not illegal to claim asylum.
I sometimes wonder how people who protest would have behaved in the second world war when the UK housed Jewish refugees escaping from Nazi Germany? They were asylum seekers too.

These Jewish refugees needed official papers and permission to exit/enter a new country. They were not skipping through multiple safe countries without permission.

FollowSpot · 24/08/2025 11:47

There are no 'illegal immigrants' in hotels.

There are people claiming asylum / refugee status, who have not been processed by our government.

A third of these migrants are sent back - especially single men from Albania.

'Illegal immigrants ' stay under the radar possibly doing your nails in a nail bar near you, possibly kept under modern slavery producing the weed that your teens smoke. O even students who have managed to overstay their visa and managed to establish themselves working in tech etc

Street Homeless people here mostly have access to hostel accommodation but for various reasons find it not where they want to be.

The housing shortage is not primarily caused by migrants.

Lavender14 · 24/08/2025 11:47

Namelessnelly · 24/08/2025 11:45

I’ve got an idea. We can house the asylum seekers who come here illegally by all those who campaign to allow them to enter and say refugees welcome taking a few each. Then everyone is happy. The refugees get a nice home, the people who want them to be here can support and help them and those thst don’t want them to be housed in hotels can be happy. And the government doesn’t have to pay so saves money. Everybody wins.

"asylum seekers who come here illegally"

It's not illegal to be trafficked. It is illegal to traffick.

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FreezeDriedStrawberries · 24/08/2025 11:47

Catterbat · 24/08/2025 11:23

They’re living in luxury hotels while our veterans are on the street.

They’re a danger to our women and children.

If you lefties want them here, let them live in your house then.

etc.

Meanwhile, half the male protestors are domestic violence perpetrators with massive anger issues whose only concern about women and girls is that these strange brown people might try and take their property.

Meanwhile, they walk past homeless veterans on the streets without a sideways glance and complain that their taxes pay towards benefits for the disabled.

The faux concern for others as a means to legitimise hatred is sickening. It makes me feel very unsafe. It’s not the immigrants we should be afraid of.

"You lefties" is ridiculous calling everyone a leftie as an insult. You have no idea of people's political leanings, whether they're right or left. It also by default insinuates that having sympathy for fellow human beings is a left thing and everyone on the right doesn't do or have any of that, and that they're all racist. Which is ridiculous.

Simonjt · 24/08/2025 11:47

OneAlertOliveFinch · 24/08/2025 11:41

Yes let's mock the working class. Ultimately the man was right and the country was plagued by r*pe gangs. You stood by and ignored him because he wasn't articulate. Do you feel better about yourself?

Why have you decided he was working class? He was right? Could you show me these Iraqi laws and Muslimia rayguns that he was right about?

Frenchbluesea · 24/08/2025 11:48

Seeking asylum is a human right and enabling that is foundation to humanity. I don’t understand how someone can want to deny a place of refuge and safety to anyone in need.

MumWifeOther · 24/08/2025 11:48

Goldengirl123 · 24/08/2025 10:54

It makes me very sad that we have our own homeless people and yet we are providing these people with a comfortable bed and food

Are the asylum seekers to blame for the short comings of our democratically elected government, or a convenient scape goat?

SquishedMallow · 24/08/2025 11:48

Notagain75 · 24/08/2025 11:45

They are not illegal immigrants they are asylum seekers. It is not illegal to claim asylum.
I sometimes wonder how people who protest would have behaved in the second world war when the UK housed Jewish refugees escaping from Nazi Germany? They were asylum seekers too.

I don't expect they would have crossed umpteen safe countries to get to a safe house though, no ?

wrongthinker · 24/08/2025 11:48

Piggywaspushed · 24/08/2025 11:45

You want (more) tents and sleeping bags on the streets?

Obviously I'm not suggesting they're just put on the streets. They need to be detained in a place separate from citizens.

Piggywaspushed · 24/08/2025 11:48

Good lord.

xanthomelana · 24/08/2025 11:49

Fauxligarchy · 24/08/2025 11:21

What is an illegal immigrant, I’m not being difficult I truly don’t know? I didn’t think we could have illegal immigrants in this country I thought they were either immigrants or asylum seekers

As if you need explaining but I’ll humour you. An illegal immigrant, or undocumented migrant if you want to be politically correct, is a person who has entered the country without a visa, stayed when their visa has expired, disappeared when asylum has been turned down etc. These are the people not counted in the figures that make up the boat crossings because in reality no one has any idea how many of them are in the country and never will.

SquishedMallow · 24/08/2025 11:49

Frenchbluesea · 24/08/2025 11:48

Seeking asylum is a human right and enabling that is foundation to humanity. I don’t understand how someone can want to deny a place of refuge and safety to anyone in need.

Yeh.... Only thing is : they've bypassed a fair few safe countries to get her though hey ?

Pineapplewaves · 24/08/2025 11:49

They should be held in an immigration centre and sent back at the earliest opportunity, this is what happens in Spain. They’ll stop coming when we stop giving out free housing, pocket money and the right to roam freely.

TroysMammy · 24/08/2025 11:50

I do wonder why Albanians are coming to the UK though. The bad apples ending up in court for drug dealing and cannabis growing seems to be a regular occurrence.

whatasillygoose · 24/08/2025 11:50

OneAlertOliveFinch · 24/08/2025 11:36

Do you know what the French do? Give them a sleeping bag and a tent. Funny how they don't want to stay in France.

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God, imagine not wanting to live in tent in Calais. What cheeky fuckers eh.

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 24/08/2025 11:50

Saeurcat · 24/08/2025 11:46

As part of their application to stay for good they do indeed have to sit a British citizenship test, having seen some of the questions on there, there are people born in the UK who wouldn’t even pass that test

I knew someone a while back who said a couple of the questions you were asked. Some of them were bloody hard!
I'd be screwed 🤣

Surveille222 · 24/08/2025 11:50

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OneAlertOliveFinch · 24/08/2025 11:50

Simonjt · 24/08/2025 11:47

Why have you decided he was working class? He was right? Could you show me these Iraqi laws and Muslimia rayguns that he was right about?

He is saying "Muslim r*pe gangs" in a heavy accent so it sounds like Ray guns. Nice deflecting though.

Bambamhoohoo · 24/08/2025 11:50

Roosch · 24/08/2025 11:45

Apply for asylum in their first safe country (likely Turkey/North Africa). Never England. Wait in an asylum centre whilst claim is being processed.

Preferably the adult men should go and fight the regime they are running from, and improve their own country.

I find this a real odd idea from a practical POV. North Africa is struggling with enormous amounts of AS, you’re right. Should they just take the whole world’s worth? And by virtue of living in a island surrounded by stable countries we never take any?

secondly, the idea that individual men, returned to dictator regimes could enact any change is bonkers. They’d be slaughtered on return. What do you think, they’ll go back and start a Facebook petition?

do people who say these things have no idea what it’s like to live under totalitarianism? Do you not even know anything about what it was like for say, the French in WW2?!

Namelessnelly · 24/08/2025 11:51

Lavender14 · 24/08/2025 11:47

"asylum seekers who come here illegally"

It's not illegal to be trafficked. It is illegal to traffick.

But they are still here illegally. They may not have committed the crime, but they are here without following the proper laws. So illegal. This may not be their fault but then the government needs to crack down on the traffickers.

Catterbat · 24/08/2025 11:51

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 24/08/2025 11:47

"You lefties" is ridiculous calling everyone a leftie as an insult. You have no idea of people's political leanings, whether they're right or left. It also by default insinuates that having sympathy for fellow human beings is a left thing and everyone on the right doesn't do or have any of that, and that they're all racist. Which is ridiculous.

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Heyhelga · 24/08/2025 11:51

Some people are getting very rich out of it from taxpayers money ie the hotel companies.

Really need quicker processing and I hope with it a high level of background security checks.

Sparklesandspandexgallore · 24/08/2025 11:52

Of course I know the hotels are closed to the public when housing asylum seekers. I didn’t really think I had to spell it out to you.
I absolutely know what happens as I work within this field!
The hoteliers get made a lot of money to house them, it is a guaranteed amount which is why they do it.
I’m not blaming any business owner for thinking with their head.
Someone asked how it worked.
This is fact not political dribble.

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