Migration crisis is putting the UK at grave risk.

[MicrosoftBob]

Refugees are people fleeing conflict zones. The present crisis is with economic migrants fleeing Africa and the Middle East. These people aren't reaching the UK illegally, the French and Germans given them identity papers so they'll come to the UK and be off their backs

FTFY

[seanraaron]

Always easier to be leftie when it's not happening to you.

Let me guess, all immigrants are criminals/stealing jobs/welfare scum; if only I suffered their rampaging depredations I'd face the truth and support keeping the hordes at bay?

[vetran]

Refugees are people fleeing conflict zones. The present crisis is with people fleeing Syria. These people aren't reaching the UK illegally. I'm not sure who you're referring to exactly - doesn't the Mail article have that information?

People who cross Europe to get to the UK are not eligible for Asylum. This is covered by the Dublin agreement.

The fact that the "Syrians fleeing persecution" look awfully like people from other countries whose motivation is economic and the majority are young males not women & children like other refugee movements doesn't really encourage people to be sympathetic.

These are the points most are making. I have no objection to the UK helping. we should fund & develop facilities in Turkey and other countries round Syria so refugees are safe and well cared for, they can return at the end of the war.

[vetran]

Let me guess, all immigrants are criminals/stealing jobs/welfare scum; if only I suffered their rampaging depredations I'd face the truth and support keeping the hordes at bay?

Its surprising how many claiming asylum pop 'home' for holidays.

[seanraaron]

These are the points most are making. I have no objection to the UK helping. we should fund & develop facilities in Turkey and other countries round Syria so refugees are safe and well cared for, they can return at the end of the war.

It's a shame there's been so little progress in getting an agreement with other EU members and a lot of grandstanding and unhelpful statements from the UK gov. That's the point I've been making.

[The Janner Miss Tanner]

I was reading an intresting article in the Times (paywall) earlier and it was saying how many of these pro immigration groups like Open Borders and Southall Black Sisters are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from some Wall Street hedge fund backed outfit. Big business likes open borders. So do hard left-wingers; they make odd bed fellows.

[stek]

Its surprising how many claiming asylum pop 'home' for holidays.

As an avid contributor to immigration boards I can assure you if this ever happened asylum would be refused, its all on their SAR nowadays....

[seanraaron]

As an avid contributor to immigration boards I can assure you if this ever happened asylum would be refused, its all on their SAR nowadays....

Now now, I'm sure the poster has worked with people or his neighbour's friend worked with a guy who did this, so who are we to question such statements?

[vetran]

As an avid contributor to immigration boards I can assure you if this ever happened asylum would be refused, its all on their SAR nowadays....

ok used to. which is why they added them to their SAR, either that or they decided to track it for the hell of it.

[OwlHoot]

I was reading an intresting article in the Times (paywall) earlier and it was saying how many of these pro immigration groups like Open Borders and Southall Black Sisters are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from some Wall Street hedge fund backed outfit. Big business likes open borders. So do hard left-wingers; they make odd bed fellows

It may not be some nefarious plot by cigar chomping capitalists to "open borders", especially when excess immigration is likely to tighten them.

Several hedge fund managers are financiers and bankers who fled from Lebanon as youngsters in the 1970s.