To think this asylum seeker has no chance?

[BalloonSlayer]

Met a man today who says his family are asylum seekers.

He looks as if he is from the Middle East, but I didn't like to ask.

Anyway, he said they want to get permission to stay for a few years.

I said, oh dear, I suppose you must have been victims of violence? He said no, but their baby son was at risk. I asked how he in particular was at risk, and what had happened. He said that nothing had happened but that he had been warned in a dream something was going to happen so he needed to leave his home country and seek asylum elsewhere.

AIBU to think and that the Home Office will not put up with this for a second? I would imagine they'll be deported in the blink of an eye.

Or is this classic PFB? He is middle aged - old enough to know better although his wife is very young.

Where did you meet them?
Are you sure he's not winding you up?

Mental! (Him, not you)

Was he wearing a tea towel on his head?

If that's the story he sticks to then, no, he doesn't stand a chance.

If I didn't recognise your name OP I would think this was a choice bit of trolling.

That's a bit of a prejudice, MillyR, not all Middle-Eastern people wear that sort of headgear you know.

I think he will have a chance as an economic migrant; carpenters are not in demand. He will have to go for asylum instead.

Never in a million years will he be able to stay. How ridiculous.

I did offer him some casual work fitting my new kitchen, Milly, but his line is more the rougher stuff, oxen yokes etc. Not much call for that round here, sadly.

If he doesn't fancy the teatowel, how about the outfit in this middle image:

www.whileshepherdswatched.co.uk/

Milly I think you are being pretty sick, and if you mean this as a joke then your comedy radar is way way off.

PMSL I thought it was a serious thread seen as though it's no longer christmas. Doh

actually I think you'll find that some pretty awful stuff has happened (or is threatened to happen) in their home country

I am with you even if no-one else is

Hhhhhmmm I think for the first time on MN ever I have been had by a fab troll post.

Well done BS, very sorry Milly

It is epiphany, MegSophandEmma, and every year in church it strikes me that given that the Holy Family were asylum seekers - with a very dodgy story - that they were very lucky that the Daily Mail was not publishing in Egypt 2000 years ago.

Although the Egyptians made another lot of asylum seekers into slaves a few thousand years before that. (Allegedly. I think theologians say Moses never existed)

And I always wonder what percentage of the congregation are Daily Mail readers, and what they would think if a real family turned up in their midst in identical circumstances. "How dare they come here stealing all our jobs? We have our own carpenters!"

wasn't Epiphany last week?

BarkisisWilling - Epiphany starts on 6 Jan and lasts till Lent. Love your name BTW

I think the fact that the local ruler WAS indeed killing all the baby boys under the age of 2 does imply they were at quite a severe risk

Well of course they were, (although according to the sermon yesterday there is no historical record of the Slaughter of the Innocents, thankfully).

However, the Bible passage says clearly that they left Israel because Joseph had a warning in a dream and all the other stuff happened after they had gone.

Thanks BalloonSlayer

surely if he is wandering around the street, the government are not really best placed to deport him, he could go into hiding at any time I would think.