Am i the only one whos starting to feel extremely hostile to 'asylum' seekers?

I can't stand them. They're nothing more than economic parasites.

A true refugee escapes their homeland to a bordering nation and awaits peace- then returns to rebuild their life.

NOT seek an all expenses paid gravy-train to the West.

And it is true many crimes are by asylum seekers- most come from areas of the world where law and order simply do not exist.

The mincing Pinko Leftist above is full of it:

1 in 4 refugee applications are genuine

New Labour Home Secretary admitted granting asylum to known criminals- including suspected terrorists.

Quote:

Mr Blunkett acknowledged that the current system was too slow, vulnerable to fraud and unfair both on local people

"Sakubo, 29, pleaded guilty to attempting to obtain £294 by deception from Whalley Range sub-post office in Blackburn and attempting to obtain the same amount by deception from Henthorne Road sub-post office in Clitheroe. "

Michael Singleton, prosecuting, said Sakubo had entered the UK clandestinely on October 3. He had come from Zaire and sought political asylum. He had been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in June.

"An African asylum seeker who used nearly £200,000 from a benefits scam to start building a hotel back home was jailed for three years today.

Angolan Demosthenes Barroso, 34, was the "main player" behind a huge fraud involving stolen giro cheques which were laundered through fake bank accounts."

"The Home Office has launched an investigation into claims that an immigration officer was helping asylum seekers remain in Britain for cash.

The official allegedly told an undercover journalist he charged up to £2,000 for helping people to get refugee status.

He also claimed he helped asylum seekers of other nationalities pretend they were Zimbabweans because the Home Office had a ban on deporting people to Zimbabwe, The Sun reported.

The immigration officer - named by the paper as Joseph Dzumbira, 35, from Southend, Essex - allegedly said he could provide fake Zimbabwean arrest warrants to support asylum seekers' claims that they would be in danger if they were returned"

The Angel Group have already been exposed by the local press in Leeds for accommodating refugees in 'squalid conditions' reportedly without gas or hot water.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/...

A new investigation by the Home Office is investigating claims of financial irregularities including fraud. This has been prompted by inquiries by the Guardian newspaper, focusing on claims that the London-based Angel Group charged the Home Office and Leeds City Council for the same properties.

From the Guardian article:

'Company records, internal emails and testimony from former Angel employees also suggest the company was paid for accommodation that was unfit for habitation or for which it had no keys. Records further suggest Angel claimed discounts on council tax to which it was not entitled in Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne.'

'Based in Docklands in London, Angel has had contracts with Nass for five years, mainly in Yorkshire and the north-east. Income from its houses, flats and hostels largely contributes to a turnover of around £20m a year. It was awarded a new contract in May for up to 15 months.'

'The group, with more than 50 subsidiaries, is 100% owned by 48-year-old Julia Davey. In 2003 she paid herself a salary of £458,000 as well as collecting nearly £1m in dividends.'

I represent asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. I have been doing this job for over 5 years now and i have noted a dramatic decrease in the number of entrants into the UK over the past two years. The Home Office (also now known as the Border and Immgration Control) are in the process of opening 'holding centres' (similar to the current 8 or 9 detention centres already in place) for new arrivals and have stated they will deal with all fresh applications for asylum and refugee status applications within six months of arrival. Some of the comments i have read were supportive and showed that some people are aware of humanitarian issues in our world and are commapsssionate towards a cause i feel strongly about. Others, however, showed why the UK, particulalry English, are regarded as an igonorant nation. (please note i was born in Kent and have lived in the UK all my life). I think a few people may have forgotton that during WW2 places like Canada took UK Refugees until the end of the war some of you obvioulsy think that all the people should have been detained until the war was over or that the Jews who fled here in their hundreds should have been detained (especially those that had escaped from concentration camps because they were used to being detained!). There are many things that make me proud to be English, the attitudes of some towards people who had no choice in being born in countries that are repressed by dictatorship or are war torn make me ashamed.

You aren't racist, you have just succumbed to the twaddle in the right wing press. Was Barry George a foreigner?

I doubt many would come to claim asylum thinking they will have a "cushy" life here. I am sure most are genuine, even if their claim is rejected. Many asylum seekers had status in their home country, and are hated here. If they knew what "welcome" awaited them, they would not have bothered.

Some of them are victims of homegrown criminals who help them to get into the country, for a price, a very high price.

Stop reading the Mail. Asylum seekers are not taking over, they have no special preference for social housing, they are not being given huge handouts. Worst of all, they are barred from working. Surely the answer is to allow them to work, so they don't HAVE to rely on benefits.

Calm down - and don't believe everything you read in the newspapers! People will always abuse the system, and I don't just mean people from abroad - there's plenty of British spongers as well! Actually, most of the immigrants around here are hard working and honest - if only more British people were like that than I wouldn't have to pay so much in taxes (and I don't just mean in recent years!)

I agree with you in part at least, but what annoys me more is that we are losing our identity as a nation because our government is so scared of offending others. I dont know about you but when im in another country I respect their culture and thier rules.....why do our government not expect the same?

Local authorities don't issue licences to people without evidence of residence, so it would be amazing if your taxi drivers were illegal immigrants.

In fact you sound so keen to hate someone you don't seem to be able to focus on any one group for more than three seconds!

If you hate it so much, why don't you move to America.

I agree with you dude and I'm an immigrant myself (but I came legally). The illegals make it harder for us, day by day, to do even simple things without being the target of suspicion. Tons of paperwork and other things, and why? Because I look like and am from the same countries as them.

i recently had an arguement with my sisters husband. he was a refugee and he said he had to leave his country (iran) because he was in danger of his life. which i do understand but the point i made was - if you left your county because you were in danger,why did you then skip through 3 perfectly safe ones to get to britain? and the worst of it is all he does is complain how sh1t this country is. but if i said bugger off back to your own if its that bad id be called racist! cant win, i was born in this country but im quickly becoming a minority and im frightened to do anything that might upset someones religion. its mad! ill be claiming asylum in a different country if this carrys on

I agree with you, i am not racist either , but i feel the people coming over are wanting us to change to suit them, where as if we went over there we'd have to adapt to them,

i read somewhere Christmas offended too many religions, so schools where banning cards, and wanted to rename Christmas., Yule or something, WHY?

this is our country!

if you dont like it go home!

and like you said, fair enough if they are escaping horrors, but come over, work for a living and Adapt to how we live!

Its only fair!

Ooooo...way to serious...I think you are looking for the government and politics crowd.