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.

What a nonsense, the reason why asylum seekers often find it hard to embed into a community is because so many people adopt the 'not in my back yard' mentality.

So this is why they sexually assaulted 1200 European women on one new year's eve in Egypt style mob attacks?

Would David Cameron the pig shagger do?

This is so unrealistic. What on earth is someone from a small English village even going to have in common with a poorly educated Eritrean, Sudanese or Afghani man? Why should anyone have to get to know people they don't want there in the first place?

Of course. All fundamentalists are dangerous.

Yes I would actually have no problem with it. But then I work directly with this demographic so I guess I'm thinking of them as human beings rather than one homogeneous mass. How many asylum seekers do you know?

They want to come here don't they? Risking the channel to leave France

@Lavender14 when people move in vast numbers they don't need to integrate do they ? That's a really fundamental part of the issue

Nope, a random blog is not proof.

Google it, it’s been disproven.

Ya what.

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‘Sanctuary seekers’

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Did the locals welcome us with open arms in Sudan in the mid-1800s or did they kick up a fuss and start throwing spears at us?

Or trying to get into the back of my fucking campervan. I'd be the one to get fined if they were successful and spotted on the UK side, as well.

Right, but you must also recognise that most people are not fundamentalists. And a religious text alone cannot cause harm. And many people seeking asylum are leaving to get away from that extremism you are accusing them of endorsing. Have you any idea how insulting that is?

Many men. They seem happy enough for their female relatives to stay behind and suck it up.

I would agree if it were not for the sizeable number that want Sharia law.

And I have a bridge I can sell you....🙄

Anecdata deserves anecdotal responses.

Of course they do. How else would they work? Have you any idea how hard it is to exist in a country where you've no income? No language? That's an extremely vulnerable place to be in life. Every asylum seeker I've met bar none has been working hard to learn English and to integrate. The thing that holds them back is the reception they get and the blatant racism they face. People here need to take accountability for their part in integration failing.

This keeps getting pointed out to those who claim that net migration is down……but they ignore that and still keep quoting it on other threads.

Britain, over 200 years ago, passed the abolition of slave trade act which pressured other countries to do the same. Yet it’s still all our fault and not those countries who have failed their people by making no progress due to corruption.

It is not an extreme view to say that I do not want any more asylum seekers in the UK...and I want the ones that are here, removed as soon as possible le.

This has been foisted upon us by wineries of the UK. Either home grown or other atates; or a mis of the two.

Other countries, Pakistan for eg, just deport hundreds of thousands of people.

No one says a thing.

Stop telling us what we can and cannot do in our country. Where there is a will there is a way.

How many asylum seekers do you know personally?

How do you propose Muslims get religiously divorced without a Muslim court?

Sikhs and Jews also have religious courts.

People don't want them here, and certainly have no responsibility to help their "integration".
If it's that hard for them here, I'm sure they'd be more comfortable in their home countries.