AshtonRed said:
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Most migrants settle here, become valuable, and law abiding citizens, without them our nation would be by far the worse. Obviously there are bad examples too, but on balance our nation is enhanced by migrants.
The weekly hotel cost of illegal immigration is running at
£5m a week.
The UK population has grown by approaching 10 million people since the year 2000 and a lot of that is by immigratiom.
We simply cannot continue with this rate for a small island.
The NHS, THAT WE PAY FOR waiting lists are currently at 6m people with some people waiting over 4 years for some treatments at the moment . Adding more and more illegals who get fast tracked for treatment above our own citizens, and get free dental treatment is a total disgrace and the electorate are getting angrier and angrier and who can blame them ?
The annual cost of illegal immigration exceeds £4bn when you factor in giving these people food, money, phone etc etc etc plus the salaries of Border Force, Police, Social Care, Home Office etc.
We have British families living below the poverty line all over the country and homeless people on the streets of every town and city, made worse by the current cost of living pressures. Do you not think that we should be looking after our own citizens before some unidentified middle eastern person who may, or may not be a risk to society, because I do.
The people coming here illegally are not real refugees, nor are they coming directly from a war torn country like Ukraine. They are coming from a 3rd safe country, France. These are economic migrants and many of them who do evade capture on our shores will not be paying tax and NI, as they will be working for peanuts in Kebab houses or Indian restaurants. Modern slavery.
If people want asylum and can prove they are worthy of it/are in danger for their lives, then they shouldn't be destroying their passports and should be catching a flight to the UK where they can be assessed immediately by Border Force.
If they are successful then fair enough. If they do not qualify then they should be sent back on the next flight from where they came from.
We're accused of being a racist nation yet we've taken in people from all over the world in huge numbers in my lifetime, and these are people who want to come here above France, Germany etc. But the current mess has to be sorted and fast.
I would rather take 1m Ukrainian women and their children while the men stay and fight the Russians.
The total opposite of true of the young men aged 20-30 who turn up on a dinghy having left their women kids behind in the middle east.