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.

Would you welcome similar near you?

So why do we want even more people here who could do us harm

The usual nasty stereotyping from the inclusive.

Dispite a few flag waving supporters the vast majority don't want asylum hotels or camps anywhere near them for obvious reasons. Asylum and migration systems are broken and grotesquely exploited. The vast majority are here for a better life, not asylum and are in no more danger than anyone else living in their home country. They are exploiting poorly drafted legislation which us no longer fit for purpose and cowardly politicians who won't tackle it. There are over two Billion people in the countries we won't repatriation or deport to.

It definitely is all men. I think i would feel differently if it was mixed/families. Although I still think the scale is too much for a small community.

What is getting swept underneath the carpet is all the rapes, assaults and murders these illegal immigrants are doing

Back to where they came from. Or France.

Equal opportunity in Britain for the world's rapists.

There's a surprisingly large number of British people that consider women and children providing opportunities for rape for illegal immigrants is a necessity.

That's really good. Thankyou :)

Men are dangerous. Some men are violent at higher per capita rates than others.

Sigh. Everyone seems to moan about how difficult planning is and then they discover what happens when the government relaxes planning laws to allow the development the government (or their friends) want to build.
But you are not being unreasonable. What an utterly stupid thing to do, to settle 1500 young, single men in a small village, where is nothing to do. It will cause manifold problems.

They're economic migrants with clever gangs who make money to get them here and give them all.the information they need to stay.

We actively have organisations using our legal aid to keep them.here.

There is similar near me.

Are you the person who says "oh but me and my DD have never had an issue".

I think they probably will go to the town (if you are thinking about the right place) but it is ten miles away and there is 1500 of them so I don't think they'll all be able to go every day. I don't think being ten miles away from a nice city negates the issues with the village

I doubt when all the sums are done that it will be the cheapest option. It is the popular option though, cos it’s not “5* hotels” innit.

Yes and had homes and lives to go to and focus on. Visits to parents/wives/kids etc

it’s madness to put so many men in one place with nothing to do, as a former prison worker I promise it’s a bad idea. Humans need a focus and a purpose not to be dumped out in the middle of nowhere indefinitely .

we have a hotel on the outskirts of our city, it’s been no bother, the men have access to wide ranging facilities and at 270 ish are tiny fraction of the local population meaning more options to integrate into charities and groups and programmes etc

it’s not racist or anti asylum seeker to say this is a bad option!

Actually, I don't know if I have the right place as I'm thinking of a village near a wealthy, liberal town and then a City further away.

We don't know this. We only hear of immigrant rapes etc. How many ordinary British men are committing rape and it's so normal now it hardly gets mentioned - like the DH who drugged his wife, raped her and filmed other men raping her? How many of those rapes are going on and the women are unaware?
To get an idea of whether immigrant young men are more likely to rape one needs to have % of offending against numbers.
Not that I agree with all these asylum seekers being put in small village - it's a bad idea.

No

wrong place then!

It’s not popular. Most people agree with the op.

Yes, sounds like it.

No need to import more in if we have people bad enough here

It’s abominable, I’m so so so sorry. I hope they send them away soon. It’s such an infringement. Truly awful.