Franglais:
If illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are here, arent they better in known and controlled housing, than left to fend for themselves on the streets. If the Government invested in basic hostels, they wouldnt need to pay money and give profits to private hotel owners, would they? They could spread these hostels more evenly over the country, rather than concentrate them in poorer, cheaper areas, Leatherhead as well as Leeds.
Illegal immigrants qualify for no benefits. (That should be obvious: illegals don`t announce themselves to officials)
Asylum seekers are not normally allowed to seek work, but receive “asylum support”, which is less than other benefits, whilst their application is processed.
fullfact.org/immigration/pensio … -refugees/
fullfact.org/immigration/we-fac … m-seekers/Post Brexit? Asylum seekers are covered by the Geneva Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, which the UK is signed up to independently of EU membership, so little difference in or out.
About 10% of Syrian refugees come to Europe.
Turkey was (2016) housing 2,700,000 Syrian refugees, over 1,000,000 in Lebanon and 660,000 in Jordan. In 2015 the UK had, from all countries, 20,000 accepted for asylum.
Gives a little perspective doesn`t it?
fullfact.org/immigration/asylum … nd-europe/
Perhaps we could follow the French model and allow them to set up shanty towns in and around the capital and at all the major ports