Anyone else really concerned about asylum seekers killing people, seemingly to get a life term prison sentence?

[potato08]

Just to clarify I'm a lifelong labour voter before I get told I'm a deform bot!
Locally to me an assylum seeker from Ethiopia has just been jailed for 25 years for the murder of a man in a bank in broad daylight (he was angry that his application had been turned down).
Earlier this week an afghan national killed 1 person and injured 3 more...
I follow politics, and geo politics (am a history grad) and so I'm aware that the current immigration levels are nothing to what will come when the Sahel region collapses, but is this going to keep happening?
Why can't they be deported? Why should uk tax payers pay?
I have teen dds, and it makes me scared for them.
I know there's no quick fix after years of tory corruption and inaction, but what could be done within a legal framework?
Would rejoining the EU help stop the boats?

I'm not laying the blame for the massive benefit bill at the feet of asylum seekers.
I think the current benefit bill is unsustainable before we even factor in asylum seekers. The amount of British born & breed people claiming benefits is unsustainable.

No. And frankly, this is next level batshittery.

Born and bred 😅

Oh please . The majority shouldn’t be here in the first place. They are illegally. End of .

What other country , apart from our pathetic soft touch , accepts illegals and hands them homes, benefits, food etc free of charge .

The majority of the indigenous have had enough but are called racists for being concerned . It’s fucking ludicrous.

• Here illegally

They're not here illegally. They may have entered the country by an illegal route, but once they are here and have aimed asylum they are no longer illegal

I'm mixed race.
I'm fucking tired of being called racist and "spiralling" for pointing out that I'm concerned about undocumented men from countries who think women are lesser human beings coming here and the authorities seemingly having no way of knowing where they are or what they are doing.
But I'm a left wing middle aged woman so what do I know?
There are afghanis that should be here - the last govt threw the afghan interpreters to the mercy of the Taliban.
When we were in the EU we had reciprocal arrangements to return/prevent small boat crossings.
My dc are female, so, yes, I'm scared - of the white andrew tate incel morons and illegal immigrants who think British women and girls are fair game.
Look at what the authorities being scared to point out SA, violence and grooming by certain ethnic groups did in Yorkshire!
But it was poor, wc girls so who cares, right?
Probably just me "spiralling" again 😡

Agree with you. Although not sure about the white Andrew Tate incel moron line.....🤔😅😅😅

It’s the lefty way….nothing to see here….look over there.

You could not make it up.
Complete embarrassment.

Being in the EU doesn’t change much. Look at ROI and Germany.

If they're deported (the term used when someone is returned to their home country because they've committed a crime) they can't return.

If they're removed (the term used when they're returned to their home country because they've been refused asylum) there's nothing stopping them trying again.

It would be ridiculous to commit a crime deliberately, because the result of that would be eventual deportation and no second chance.

When they're granted asylum, they'll be able to work. So won't need benefits.

Well currently neither of the adults really speak any English. And the woman will probably need to be at home caring for all the children. I find it hard to imagine he will find a job that pays well enough to support 7 of them without needing any benefits.

I mean there's no 🤣🤣🤣🤣 emoji so it had to be done!!! One of the funniest things I've read on MN in a long time.

The whole thing is beyond a mess. It’s unsustainable.

Oh please

Well that's not strictly true. UK jails are full of foreign criminals. Currently around 12.5% of all prisoners in UK jails are not British citizens.

Once you claim asylum you aren’t illegal. And the vast majority of countries in the world have a mechanism to claim asylum.

The Uk isn’t special in this regard. The benefits asylum seekers get are similar to others in Europe.

There is more conflict and unrest in the world than there has been for decades and huge numbers of people are on the move around the world. 75% will stay in neighbouring countries so we are seeing only a very small part of this.

@imapeucetoothbrushhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/29/female-survivors-of-grooming-gangs-demand-apology-from-nigel-farage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I despair at the shit show of a country we live in.

The % in prison broadly reflects the % in the general population.

For those of us that live in the town that OP is referring to it is our real life.
if you were in the bank or the nearby shops that afternoon or knew the man in question then it’s a bloody horrible feeling.
So p*ss off and patronise someone else.

Denmark has almost stopped migrant arrivals by drastically reducing social benefits. Authorities seize valuables worth more than 10,000 kroner (approximately $1,500) from arriving migrants to help cover their costs.

It's also the insidious crimes. Mothers not wanting to take their children to the swimming baths, getting rubbed up against on public transport and numerous other things that make women and girls uncomfortable.

but workers get UC as well

here's a few figures from DWP and ONS

https://www.migrationcentral.co.uk/p/at-least-19-million-foreign-nationals

@potato08 i'm not white, many people mistake me for being mixed race but I'm actually not mixed. Just have the Meghan Markle type colouring. I don't tend to talk about it in real life because I'll just get called a racist. Some people seem very keen to label me but that is usually the left wingers.

maybe lots of people are quietly getting angry who weren't angry before. I used to live near one of these hotels in London. It wasn't really something I could express concerns about. That one opened in 2018. It's closed now, but also I've moved. There is one now nearish but not walking distance, luckily for me.