Asylum seekers should be detained?

Kedar

God forbid that you never have to run away from your country. God forbid that you never have to experience what a friend of mine went through in the U.S. for several months a dangerously over-crowded concentration camp called a 'detention center.'

The other thing is that detained people seeking asylum is immoral and against international law, law which the United States had a direct role in writing and signing.

To punish people who are refugee form violence and other forms of oppression tells you a lot about the society who does this.

If America wants to recover her moral high ground, the way would be to put more money behind expediting FBI reports which have brought the entire INS processing of claims to a ten year quagmire.

jason c

If I am driving in the UK on a South African drivers licence and I am stopped for a motoring offence the police have the right to detain me until I appear in court.
I believe that if an asylum seekers or an illegal immigrant is arrested they should also be detailed until there status can be confirmed.

clare_bell_uk

I think we should not take them in full stop, we are struggling to home our country residents let alone take others! Charity begins at home!

deadman

We all know the solutions are fairly simple, but we are governed by a bunch of self important, useless middle class muppets, and common sense doesn't come into it. they need to waste millions on stupid ideas first before they consider any decent possibilities.

bob

totally agree with you but it will never happen as the country is run by left wing liberals.

jimquk

Normally, those asylum-seekers who are suspected from the outset to be "bogus" are in fact detained and have their cases "fast-tracked" out of the country. They are held at Oakington for a short period while their cases are looked into.

Others are released with conditions that they reside at a specified address, normally one provided by NASS. They have to sign at the nearest immigration centre regularly, and can only pick up their NASS support money by going weekly to a named post office.

Often the isolation hostility and general difficulties of life in NASS accommodation make it no worse than being in detention. Dispersed accommodation is used because it's cheaper than detention, not to do favours to asylum-seekers.

Abdul

and there in is the problem....

we actually waste money on detaining and deporting.

the government loves to get it's back patted for all it's deportations. But what about the cost of detaining and deporting on a regular basis. It's tax payers money! a lot of it!

we need to stop letting them in in the first place!

churie78

I think prevention is better than a cure. DON'T let them in until they have been accepted. Why should we have the (unnecessary) expense of holding them here?

Leo

Just send them back home, the country is full.

des c

They shouldn't get past the immigration desk at port or airport.

Wren M

There are a number of things to do to answer our asylum crisis;
Firstly anyone caught entering the country illegally should be immediately deported with no chance to claim asylum, the message then goes out enter the UK illegally and you canâ€™t EVER go back for a second chance.
Secondly anyone entering legally and claiming asylum should be assessed on the spot to see where they entered from, if they entered from a safe country they should be immediately deported back, after all the UN law on refuges said they should seek asylum in the first safe country entered.
Thirdly, all those who have entered legally and from a country designated as â€˜safeâ€™ should then be locked in asylum centres; while there they can be fed, educated in the British way of life and given any medical attention they require. If there application is successful they will have a better understanding and grasp of our ways of life. If there turned down then they can immediately be deported without having to spend time and money searching for them.
Locking them up also helps solve a number of other problems. Firstly they canâ€™t disappear into the â€˜black economyâ€™. Secondly they canâ€™t commit crimes against British citizens (an extremely BIG problem in some areas). And finally it helps curtail the racism and persecution that some asylum seekers face because the general British public is tired and fed up of seeing gangs of (mainly) young men standing on the street corners, putting our way of life down, yet surviving on benefits paid from our taxes.

JOHN T

Hi, I agree with you entirely

What a guy!!

Sometimes, I am offended by the thought that I belong to the same race as some of the people out there. We are all in this boat together! There are no problems with helping other people, the government can easily afford it. Also, persons coming to this country, or any other country, for whatever reasons bring both consumer power and labour power. IMMIGRANTS CREATE WORK!!! Giving more of the indigenous population employment. For heavens sake people, open your mind and think about it. The government says that immigration is a bad thing because they want poor people blaming each other, for whatever reason, to ensure that we remain divided and weak. It's the ruling class and their awful society that we should be attacking, not people trying to find a better life and home for their children.

they should be deported
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8b7vfSeSvI

makdiya e

may i please ask were you are from, if England then i dont knoe what to say cause you have no idea what people went through in other countries, but if you are a immigrant your self, tell me how you got to England and your prescent status.
then i will know what to say,
thanks for the question.

Clean heart

Completely disagree!

Lala Jay

It is certainly very easy to judge anyone. I guess every case is different. Imagine a refugee from Iraq - this country invaded his country, so he should have a right for asylum. I KNOW the British public are against the war, but that doesn't help the poor Iraqis. Then again, there sure are lots of fake asylum seekers, who just abuse the system. But hopefully people who work with them know how to do their job and can distinguish between genuine and bogus cases.

Somehow I cannot help agreeing with you. Mainly because I am an immigrant myself and I never have got anything for free in UK and I've been here for 4 years. I don't even want to get anything for free, but it really drives me completely insane when I read comments on here moaning that immigrants get free housing and benefits and God knows what else. I would really like to know these immigrants. I'm certainly not one of them - e.g. my bank still refuses to give me a bloody stupid debit card!

deleted

YOU ARE WRONG.

what ever happened to freedom. freedom of speech, freedom of living, freedom of movement.

you ask the question like you are god, who are you to give instruction.the world is full of to many negative and political people.hay were the countries that go to war, bomb there countries, pollute there atmosphere, maybe we should go and live were they live and see what it is really like.

lolly

completely agree with you on this one.

Physics-Student

Asylum seekers should all be given Â£100,000 and asked to leave UK. Once they have got this amount, I bet their problems will be solved and they won't feel persecuted in their own country!!!.

I have yet to see a genuine asylum seeker. We are all confused with Economic Migrants and Asylum seekers!!

Hope this helps and if you like it vote for it!!

geronimo

Well, what short memories people have on some answers to this question. Remember Yarlswood detention centre Â£31 000 000 worth of holding centre burnt to the ground by asylum seekers. Some of the do gooders who want us to have even more open borders live across the pond and don't have the amount of terrorist cells sleeping as we have in the UK therefore (in my opinion) should stop bleating on about human rights until they themselves can justify the closing of Gautama Bay. Unless of course we can fly our economic migrants and over to Orlando for a good look at corporate American Mickey Mouse indulgence. Don't they get it, its not all asylum seekers who are potential terrorists, its the ease by which any terrorist can get into, and have already settled into our England by using the asylum card dimwits.

summerhill

i wont go into a long diatribe about the subject ,suffice, to say you are dead right.

Liane H

absolutely. they steal our money and take our jobs. no wonder our taxes are so high.

Oswald W

Asylum to the ones in danger of losing their lives is not something we should refuse,unless in doing so we are being conned into depriving our own needy and desperate people seeking some help.Where will these vulnerable groups within our own UK go?
All asylum seekers must register as NAS at their first port of Safety and should they move onwards register each time they decide to move away .

cross

its so easy to agree with this idiot, i wonder how you would feel if it was the other way round, at the age of 9 on holiday in Germany some idiot stamped his lit cigarette on my hand cos i was not white enough and felt i must have been an immigrant and although i was 9yrs old i felt a lot pain and it was not from the cigarette, so don't be too quick to judge!!!!!!!!!! mixed race English chap.

migsterlover!

let's have a look at the name for a start. They're seeking asylum. Illegal immigrants however, is not such a flattering name. These people are humans the same as us and sooner or later, you will all be dead. live and let live i say!

mesun1408

I'm sure you'll have just as good an excuse when the fascist pigs come for you.

vanpuj

Are you aware that most asylum seekers work much more harder than the citizens of their host countries? most of their taxes is what is used to pay for kids who are having kids and adults who refuse to work but go to the post office for their benefits

**tomtom

Genuine or not.......why do most of them come to the UK.
On what basis are they given visa .
the case should be decided in their country rather then UK.
they drain our resouces.

bo nidle

I'm really answering some of the answers. An immigrant is supposed to ask for asylum in the first safe country they come to, so why do they pass through as many as five safe countries before winding up on my tax deductions? They by and large abuse our hospitality I am thinking of Abu Hamza in particular, I know there are good and honest men amongst them but the black sheep give them all a bad name.I would like to say a lot more but freedom of speech has been given away by this apology of a government!

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