| Topic: | Re:Re:Asylum Seekers ? | |
| Posted by: | Felicity Caborn | |
| Date/Time: | 01/11/22 14:40:00 |
| To the best of my knowledge, the people who would be put up in hotels would primarily be families with young children to get them away from the unsanitary and dangerous conditions in Manston. Younger single men, particularly those of Albanian origin would be held at Manston until processed because of the obvious danger of them absconding. Unless you can tell me otherwise I would assume very few single men are being accomodated outside Manston. By blocking the increased use of hotels, Suella Braverman is basically condemning children to stay in chronically overcrowded facility where disease is becoming increasingly rife in breach of her legal obligations all to make a gesture to pander to her supporters that even Priti Patel didn't consider. You are right about the Albanians who are generally coming here to do seasonal work of which there is currently more than in continental Europe due to harvest patterns. The suggestion that all Albanians are coming over to work with drug gangs is nonsense - some definitely are but a very small proportion of the total. Seaonsal work was previously done mainly by Latvians and Lithuanians before freedom of movement of labour was ended - they came and went legally generally moving back when the work was finished. Other government departments may be turning a blind eye to the presence of illegal Albanians in the workforce because they know that many domestic businesses wouldn't survive without them. Visas won't be issued for the work to be done legitimately so inevitably it is forced into the black economy. Previously we were signed up to the Dublin and EU Accords which meant that we could simply ship economic migrants like this back to their country of departure. Now they know they have to be processed which they can delay by making spurious asylum or modern slavery claims knowing they will have ample opportunity to abscond. You ask why genuine asylum seekers can't apply for asylum in France. The answer is that most do and France takes far more than we do. Only a minority want to come to England and that could be for a number of reasons but usually because they speak English not French or because they have existing family or other connections here. There is no obligation for an asylum seeker to claim that status in the first 'safe' country that they arrive in. If that was the case then the UK would receive hardly any asylum claims. |