Government putting asylum seekers in student accomodation

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There is an article saying that the University of Leeds in Headingly is being used to house asylum seekers, I don't know if there are any further plans elsewhere.
It seems to me inappropriate to use student accomodation, I hope it will not be rolled out to other Uni's.

Fury in leafy suburb over plans to turn student halls into migrant accommodation

That isn’t what’s happening. You can disagree with it, but it’s a private company who own accommodation, and would switch from renting it to students, to renting it to the government. No students will be living there if this plan goes ahead. This isn’t the uni renting out to odd unused room here and there, amongst the students. And it’s not on campus.

Leeds is a great place to be a student. This will change nothing.

New day and another hare brained ill thought through labour plan.

Labour., change the law and deport them immediately. No paperwork they go to x, y and z or back to their home country. Stop avoiding taking proper action and being so bloody weak.

We have no more room anywhere on this small island to house millions of people!

I’m not sure the female students will feel the same way!

I find the excuses to accept this bizarre, and wonder if they come from people who haven’t experienced an influx of hundreds of young men from unknown backgrounds into an area.

I agree that it’s men that are the problem and that skin colour is irrelevant, although it’s well known that men from other cultures have attitudes towards women that are even more problematic than white British men (and I’m only adding this because so many use this as an accusation of racism).

It’s known that the areas where immigrants are housed become more unstable for residents, who report an increase in vile behaviour, particularly towards women and girls, but those reporting are ignored and often told they’re racist scum for having a problem.

The problem is, of course, the inefficiencies and incompetencies in the government’s processing, so for many of these areas the problem seems indefinite which leads to misery and rising anger. This is then latched onto by all sorts - those who really are racist, but also those who understand the effects of adding 2-300 inactive men to a community, regardless of their race or background.

At the very least we need to be listening to those actually affected by housing large numbers of men in the community, and understanding why this issue is causing so much division.

I have no problem with immigration. I have a problem with the indefinite status of many of these, in areas where people have to live very close by.

Perhaps there needs to be a way to make the process far more efficient, and for the government to take people affected by this more seriously instead of calling them intolerant racists. This is what has cemented Farage’s popularity. You can talk about the problem, but look at how you’re responded to. Illegal immigration, however you view it, is a problem in this country. It’s causing great division, and it needs to be discussed and tackled in a way that will result in some progress - calling people racist is a stagnant mess, all this is doing is ensuring Farage a landslide victory, and god knows where that will lead us.

It will change things for residents, but it’s ok, we can just call them racist, ignore them, and see what happens from there.

I think they should be held in secure accommodation. Why bother with passport control if people can take a boat across the channel and have no restrictions on where they can go? It would also reduce the ‘pull’ factor. Plus, they should be processed much more swiftly and be deported if they commit crime. I also think anyone granted asylum should have that overturned if they go on holiday back to the country they were apparently fleeing from.

People want the open border policy closed. That’s what people want.

They won't be sharing with students. It will be an entire block rented out.

I've thought before student halls would fit the bill better than a hotel.

Most are flats with single (occasionally twin) accommodation with a shared kitchen. Often there is a communal room.

Students aren't there for a huge chunk of the year. Seems a sensible solution

I’m afraid to say I’ve had this WAY more from British men.

How are they to claim asylum legally?

Someone else will get a slice of they money.

It won't help taxpayers and won't stop the problem of economic migrants making their way here and claiming asylum.

Collateral damage…..

While I appreciate that there have been stories of immigrants sexually assaulting women, I struggle with the black and white thinking of ‘all immigrants are rapists’. Like British men, some are and some aren’t. I work in a university and the amount of sexual assault is off the scale. Over 50 female students reported being raped by another student in the space of two months and those are just the reported ones.

My point is, a man of any race, colour, age, social background can be a rapist and this rhetoric of let’s just tsk about the foreigners who rape is dangerous as women need to be on alert for any man really.

My daughter is a student in a city where there are protests against a hotel being used. She has stayed in accommodation very close by & had no issues at all from these people.

she has been frightened/cat called/groped at work & on the train by British men. It’s a men problem.

The difference is we don’t need these men in the community.

Widening your information rather than leaving your brief statement.

Leeds has a spread of voters and a range of councillors. Reform, Green, Labour, Independents and Lib Dem all voted in to represent the wards of the city. The council members are responsible for decision-making around properties used for asylum seekers.

Headingley’s councillor represents the Green Party.

https://www.leeds.gov.uk/your-council/elections/leeds-city-council-election-results

I work with schools. The amount of Harmful, Sexual Behaviour reported in schools has risen massively too. Shockingly, more so in primary schools.

My LA has a very low number of EAL pupils ( less than 5%), so the rise is not linked to immigration or to families from other countries.

This is a societal issue, here in the UK.

That’s as maybe, but every rape or assault by someone who has no right to be here but who has been allowed into the community is a rape that would be avoided if he was not granted entry/put in secure accommodation/deported.

I do find the argument that “rapes happen anyway so why does it matter if a few more people, mostly women and girls, have their lives devastated?” a disgusting one.

Sounds fairly optimal to me, student halls are well-designed for lots of people living in a small space (better than hotels which are only good to stay in for a week or two at most), and the locals will already be used to large groups of obnoxious young people.

(I am happy to acknowledge that asylum seekers are likely to be obnoxious, but I imagine the great majority are not actually rapists, and at a guess the ones from Islamic backgrounds probably have fewer wild alcohol-fuelled parties.)

The answer to this is obvious.

Who said that?
Who even believes that?

Of course rape is abhorrent.

@ThatWaryOchreQuoter The scheme has ended now due to the lack of people crossing the border from Mexico. But the Governor of Texas was offering free buses and moving border crossing immigrants to Democratic states.

@Wherehasthecatgone I do not understand that thinking at all, I just assume that people like this are suffering from internalised misogyny,

Overall though it’s costing millions per day to house them and it’s simple maths that the thousands arriving contribute to the housing crisis.

Germany are now turning away anyone without papers, it’s a very recent change. No idea why the UK can’t do this.