Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re: The Dubs Amendment was voted against.... | |
Posted by: | Justin Stephenson | |
Date/Time: | 02/12/21 15:48:00 |
I am sure your figures are correct but as far as I am concerned "asylum seekers" who had an opportunity to make an asylum case in multiple foreign safe countries (and despite some comments to the contrary most of the EU is safe for asylum seekers within the legal definition of safe, although that is probably not true for notoriously anti-immigration countries such as Hungary) are economic migrants not asylum seekers. In most cases they are fleeing France by the time they decide to escape to the UK. The problem is of course that the UK is long way from where the migrants originally started to flee. It is inevitable that they have to come through EU countries. The moral case for taking a proportion of the asylum seekers who flee to the EU is clear. That does require that we reach an agreement with the EU to allow the decision on whether someone is or is not an asylum seeker to be made at the first country they arrive at and for us to take an agreed proportion of all such approved asylum seekers. Of course such an agreement would be a lot easier to achieve if we were still part of the EU! |