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Taunton Blue Genie
As you all know, I'm not someone who wades into the inevitable Punch and Judy, left v right debates on here (and I'm more a person of the middle ground).
However, the cost of processing, housing and supporting what must be a huge number of the contingent of arrivals who are not true refugees must be astronomical and a huge financial and logistical burden on local and national authorities.
When I lived in London I had personal experience of what were economic migrants posing as refugees and who were used to playing the system after illegally entering the country - and they had a social network of friends and relatives doing the same thing.
I have every sympathy for genuine refugees (and I'm volunteer with a Ukrainian support group at present) but the problem is a serious one, in my opinion.
I was appalled to hear about the Rwandan scheme but last night heard that the Australians did something similar which has supposedly cured the problem, by and large.
There should be, of course, adequate facility outside the UK for refugees to apply for entry but the current situation is surely not tenable. What real options are there in the short term to solve what is a real problem?
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