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If you really need to ask that question you don’t deserve a reply....I really wonder why they literally kill themselves to get here....free healthcare, free accommodation, money for food....Hmmmmmm as they say....soft touch nation who bend over for anyone these days it would seem including the EU holding us to ransom. I didn’t want to leave but why shouldn’t boris tell the phuckers to do one?
The numbers of asylum seekers/refugees seeking to move to the UK once having gained access to the Schengen area is a small percentage of those that seek settlement in other EU states. It may seem that we are the No 1 destination of choice given media and political hype but the stats don't bear this out.
The UK decided to leave, we aren’t being kicked out. What right have we to call the shots? Try paying your mortgage up early without penalties or jacking in your membership of your local social club then telling the committee what they should be doing. Very rare for a divorce to run smoothly when there are financial implications and hardly ever smooth for the party that decided to walk.
Sometimes because they have distant family or friends who are already here. Sometimes it is because they know of people from their own area are in the UK. We get a decent percentage of Middle Eastern immigrants in the same way that France gets quite a lot of African immigrants. People from different areas try to get into certain countries. It's not as if everyone is heading to the UK.
There's also the case of being able to get work in the UK. There are plenty of unscrupulous bosses willing to take on illegal immigrants as they can pay them far less than a minimum wage worker. Oddly enough, stopping this method of making these bosses more wealthy has not been a priority for this government.
In 2018 the UK accepted just under 16,000 asylum seekers. Over half of these were part of agreed resettlement schemes (Syrians flown direct from Turkey as part of a government commitment for example. Of the rest a significant proportion arrived directly in the UK rather than transiting through the EU. In the same period Germany accepted just under 160k asylum seekers.
It may be that those seeking to pray on impressionable minds want to paint a picture of an island under siege from immigrants from outside the EU but the facts do not support the case.
Still we can't be too careful. Just imagine when we shake off the shackles of the EU and reach the Brexit promised land. Every man and his wife from outside the EU and within will be chancing their arm to have a piece of the golden prize!