YANBU. Totally agree. I like the idea of aid too, but I’m concerned it’s just being diverted to people who use it to migrate and pay people traffickers, so we’re just lining the pockets of organised crime.
I am extremely concerned about the asylum system and I think it needs root and branch reform to make sure the most in need are helped and it’s not just exploited as an illegal migration route (2/3 of those refused asylum disappear into the black market and are not deported).
Put it this way, when wars and oppression happen, who are the group that suffer most? Women and children. Hurt and hounded by men. What group has it’s rights oppressed and is persecuted in countries across the world? Women. Denied their rights and persecuted by men. Who are the most persecuted religious group world wide? Christians, largely persecuted by Muslims. Many, many other religious groups are also victims of persecution by Muslims and in some countries leaving Islam is a reason to be killed and it’s legal.
And who are we mainly giving asylum to? Muslim men. The people most likely to be the oppressors, not the oppressed. Only 1% of asylum seekers in 2017 were women.
A Saudi girl living in Kuwait last week fled her family to avoid a forced marriage and renounced Islam. She was in Thailand which is not safe, her family followed her there. She has now been granted asylum in Canada. That is exactly what the asylum system is meant for.
A Saudi Princess was given asylum after fleeing the KSA in 2009. Previous Princesses who have fled have been executed by gunshot.
A Yazidi girl was stoned to death by a mob of 1,000 yazidi men in 2007 because they suspected her of sleeping with a Sunni Muslim boy (she was a virgin).
A 13 yo girl was stoned to death for adultery in Somalia in 2008.
Women are hanged or stoned in some countries if they are raped. Many live under justice systems which render their evidence worthless so men are free to rape, kidnap, beat and torture them with impunity.
Honour killings and murders and maimings plus weaponised rape are rife in many countries.
Women are trafficked, bought and sold like a pair of socks, treated as chattel like a donkey.
And we do very little to stop this.
Persecuted groups are ignored while people who just fancy life in the UK more than at home prosper.
The asylum system is just a source of dirt cheap labour which diverts money out of the pockets of ordinary people into the pockets of the rich.
It should be an international scandal. The asylum system should be helping those in most danger to escape, not helping the fittest and the richest whose journeys are facilitated by organised crime.
Supporters of the status quo in the asylum system are bertraying the very weakest and most in need of help in favour of many, many cheats and crooks.
My children’s school has genuine refugees who have very sad stories and make great contributions to our community. Unfortunately they are very much in the minority amongst the current groups of claiminants.