Hotels emptying

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..of asylum seekers..
On the news. Are we supposed to be impressed? They are just being shuffled elsewhere, aren't they?

Don't have them here. Simple as.

It wasn’t my point, you can see who posted what. Is that a yes then? Because abuse already exists.

Par for the course these days unfortunately.

That doesn't mean you can just remove the only safeguard we have.

If you have the answer, then you'd best tell the government.

That’s not what I said. Grant them asylum OR send them home.

I am talking about those arriving in dinghies “ irregular “ as they are referred to now. We do need controlled, managed immigration, not thousands turning up every week requiring accommodation, food etc. We already have those who have come to the U.K. via legal routes , and it is enough to manage that number. What we can’t cope with is those, whether true asylum seekers, economic migrants, criminals, terrorists, drug dealers, who just descend on our shores.

But when people are challenging the fact that allowing in immigrants on boats and granting them asylum is creating massive pressure on our infrastructure, others are saying we need them to fill in the gaps in the NHS. So presumably once they get asylum, this is the role people are wanting us to push them into. Like the NHS isn’t bad enough already….

It is to someone turning up in a dinghy!

I do not want abuse in care homes from anyone. That’s my point. The DBS system clearly doesn’t safeguard sufficiently so claiming asylum seekers (who cannot work anyway) will make the situation worse has no basis in fact or evidence. It relies on the belief that all asylum seekers are criminals which is in itself fundamentally racist. The system of vetting those who work in care homes needs to change irrespective of nationality.

And I never suggested we did.

Well, it seems a lot on this thread don’t think like you!

There are people on this thread who would have cheerfully sent refugees back to Nazi Germany

am I though?

Thats an entirely different point and has nothing to do with the idea that you can just place these men in care homes and hope for the best.

Which data says all those entering on dinghies fit your list ?

The org which works with refugees asylum seekers says
almost three-quarters (71%) of people we supported in 2024-25 have at least an undergraduate degree or other Level 6 qualification. And 24% hold a master’s degree, PhD or other Level 7/8 qualification. Meanwhile, two-thirds had at least three years’ experience, while 30% had worked for 10 years or more.

I never once suggested we do that though.

Yes this

Syrian doctor brothers who fled Assad's cruel regime on boat want to work in NHS - Mirror Online https://share.google/2rqfZsJAgWtWsAVI8

Agree @Pebbles16

Example . Doctors. Came on a boat.

No one is illegal. It's not a term that can be used in reference to a human being.

Rubber bullets? So non-lethal? Why are journalists interfering and bothering law enforcement?

Don't interfere and bother law enforcement during their duties.

there has also been problems with students who live here and want to be Drs, physios and Nurses etc studying hard not being able to find jobs because we are filling the vacancies with people from abroad, how is that fair?

It's what I'm saying. We can just not grant it and they have to go home.