Originally posted by snaw
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That's not to say that our indiginous white pensioners aren't hard up but this issue is totally unrelated to the number of immigrants that come here. Instead, immigrants are helping to sustain our economy and the country would be in a far worse state if they weren't here. I can understand why perceptions can be distorted, however, when in certain parts of the country immigrants are receiving state funded housing pushing indiginous whites down the list. However, the prioritisations are based on a number of factors to do with economic need, and colour is not a criterion for priority housing.
Of course there are a few highlighted cases of some immigrants that screw the system but a few indiginous white people do that as well. No one is denying that and some illegal immigrants are obviously working or working and claiming benefits and shouldn't be. However, this is a minor problem in the bigger scheme of things. If it weren't it wouldn't be headline news in the press.
I was disgusted to here of one black African recently whose visa had run out but was still deported by being escorted to the airport, regardless, despite having terminal cancer. She was receiving NHS treatment but I don't think any provision had been made for her to receive free or affordable treatment in what was undeniably now 'her own country', which would have been the ideal solution all round. By being sent back, due to the rigid stance taken by the IND, she has been issued a certain premature death sentence because the cost of care in her own country far exceeds anything she can afford. I suppose you could argue about the merits of someone staying beyond her legitimate welcome here and still receiving NHS treatment, which is the only way she could have got the treatment she needed, and is not strictly entitled to anymore, but the decision still seemed to me to be very harsh for someone in her condition.
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