@AdamRyan
Yup, I do. So the young bloke who comes here on the boat and waits years for asylum - if we process him really quickly, then that's him, plus many of his close relatives in under family reunification. All very quickly.
He is able to work quickly. He sends money back when he can to his cousins. They make the crossing, claiming the same types of persecution as he did. They qualify, so they bring their close relations in.
If claims are processed from France or from other embassies or foreign processing centres, then that's a further financial and physical barrier removed - more claims, more appeals.
Then there is the fact that the nicer and better we are at processing, the more our country is a draw for asylum seekers compared to other safe countries. People already don't want to stay in France - they'd want to stay even less if they got great accommodation and could work within a year.
Finally, there are some who come knowing they are extremely unlikely to get asylum. Many of those who destroy their documents, have criminal records and fail in their claims we are going to struggle to remove or send back anyway, so the best thing we can do is make the system really shit so they decide things might actually not be that bad at home and take voluntary repatriation. What would happen if every Moroccan economic migrant (I have worked for a couple in detention centres and prisons who have claimed they are of an alternative nationality) who destroys his documents and who Morocco refuses to take back can stay and work here?
I know people in the civil service who have acknowledged that making claims hard is just the only policy we can adopt if we don't want to reconsider our obligations.
You don't want to hear this. I would honestly like to hear from you what the ideal system would be like and why it wouldn't increase numbers beyond what we could cope with. I am listening.