AIBU to feel helpless about a large asylum camp in our village?

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My village has been chosen for a 1500 open asylum camp for single men. It will be an open camp (as the men haven't done anything wrong so aren't detained.)

The thing is the village only has 700 people and it is pretty isolated. it's about 10 miles to the nearest city and you can walk to another small village. There is a playpark, a pub and a primary school.

It has to go through planning, but the government have changed the planning laws so that they grant themselves planning and you can't see it as it is deemed sensitive. So they will just grant themselves planning and you can't oppose it without a judicial review--by which time it will probably be already open.

They want to reduce the number of people in hotels. But am AIBU to think that this puts the burden of sorting these issues out on one tiny community? Feels like we are collateral damage to be honest. The community will be outnumbered 2 to 1 and it feels too much. There is nothing for them to do or places to go. Also the fact that it is all single men put in one massive place with no money or means or anything to do is going to lead to problems

Apparently the camps cost £10 less a night than the hotels. But they don't count the set up costs which are astronomical (the one in Essex was £47 million to set up). So it seems like it's not not even cheaper than the problem it is trying to solve but much more expensive.

AIBU to feel a bit helpless? It seems so unfair but there is nothing I can do. We wouldn't be able to move from the village anyway as no one would buy a house here.

Its exacly to do with this - exiting the EU caused major problems for the UK's asylum system because it lost automatic rights to return asylum seekers to their first point of arrival in Europe.

No it hasn’t. Look at other EU countries. Only a few have lowered asylum claims and that’s places like Poland who just say no.

Plus asylum claims were high pre-Brexit, early 2000s.

The only countries who are dealing with it are places like Australia and Poland.

I think it’s quite sad for the asylum seekers - who won’t have access to public transport to be stuck in a tiny village. I live in a city right next to a home office hotel (5mins walk) and it’s absolutely fine. I think they should be in cities. Much better for everyone.

Read what I said! The 16 year olds on disability have trebled in just 5 years, we've a huge amount of young people sat on UC. They won't come off those benefits to do care work and other low skilled or unskilled work! Why do think we had EU workers doing it! Brexit was the stupidest thing the UK ever did.

Extreme boredom affects mental health. Imagine being in a foreign country, unable to speak the language well - with no recreational available in the area.
There would just be groups of young men hanging on the corner - because there is nothing else to do.
(Just like many teens/young people do if they are not re-directed or engaged in other activities).

It's just a recipe for disaster in my opinion.

No ..it is not illegal to claim asylum

I live by a huge housing of asylum seekers and we have never had any problems …the local indigenous population are our local criminals

You really still believe they are going back for the family. It's about as believable as the person who said these men are frustrated because they can't work.

I'd like to know why my post was deleted. I didn't say anything insulting. The poster I was quoting said people could be pretending to be things they weren't and I pointed out that they could also be pretending. In fact anybody could.

You know people said this about the medieval poll tax and roaming young men. I live by a large asylum resettlement centre and we have no issues. The local indigenous population are our criminals

But the Tories went on TV and invited the wider world to apply for these post Brexit vacancies! It was a very obvious dinner bell being rang! It's absolutely Brexit that made it happen!

Sad to say, your town will be invaded as you'll be the fast minority

You were troll hunting. You're not the first to insinuate I'm a Reform bot.

Yes I know lots of people with settled status who help their families at home or who visit them and return to the UK

What’s to be feared about being a minority? Don’t we treat minorities well in the UK?

That’s not asylum. Legal migration with work visas is separate.

Well, there are often rapes and other violent crimes associated to the presence of army barracks, at rates that depend heavily on how well the officers keep control of the men, and also what other outlets they have: they'll have money to socialise, and also meet girls that way, and some will know locals or even be from there, which also increases social control.

None of that applies to young male immigrants, who are not socially integrated to the UK, and have no hierarchy to replace social control. So one thing we can guarantee is that there will be a significant number of rapes. At least as many as if you took 1500 young British males and put them all in a camp with no money and nothing to do all day, and probably not able to speak the local language very well.

Why is it suddenly safe for them to return?

Someone didn't like it, or agree with it and wanted to delete it im guessing, MNHQ tend to just delete everything that is reported sometimes not a justified deletion IMO

Linton-on-Ouse? My DS, DIL and their then baby DD had a house there when in the Forces. Lovely village but not much there in the way of amenities.
This will be disastrous for the community, having 1500 men dropped in on them, allowed to roam freely.
The residents managed to chase it out originally but now the government have decided to shit on them from great height.
I feel so sorry for you all, and yoir families🙁

The rabid mob don't want that, they want cruelty …it makes them feel superior ..that their powerlessness isn't so bad if others have it worse

Which one?

It looks unlikely there have been no issues related to it.

Based on official data from the Home Office and local police forces, there is no active UK asylum military site that has had zero recorded incidents of crime, anti-social behaviour, or internal tension.

Because of the high concentration of hundreds of single adult men housed together in isolated environments for long periods, all major operational bases have registered various forms of incident reporting.

I wasn't troll hunting I was responding in kind to your post about other posters pretending to be something they're not. You seem to have been accused of being a troll more than once before 🤷‍♀️ but not by me.

Wars end…regimes change..the west chases resources elsewhere ..lots of reasons

It's not quite as clear cut .
How many did we return because I know Loads were coming in on lorries. Also how did we count /register them in because we didn't with the EU migrants did we ?

Being in the EU and with Blair's worker rights fuck up we had millions of people legally moving here from eastern Europe ? So whichever way we were totally flooded by new arrivals that our systems had no capacity to tolerate .

Actually @EasternStandard corrected me on this. It wasn't a blanket return scheme. Post brexit policy is to blame.

Leave refugee convention, leave echr. Detain and deport. Simple.