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Given that the government screws things up generally, isn't it possible that they're also screwing up their 'asylum seeker' policy? I only say this because 'a friend of a friend' who was involved with Afghan kids granted asylum (in a sort of fostering capacity) reckons they are rarely seeking asylum from anything: they've be sent here by relatives who see them as potential cash cows. Moreover, these young men - because they are young men a lot of the time - aren't particularly happy about it.
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Out of curiosity, how can these men be cash cows?
It's not that refugees live the high life, or benefits are so great.
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Given that the government screws things up generally, isn't it possible that they're also screwing up their 'asylum seeker' policy?
Yes.
In fact they do more than screw up. They deliberately miss apply rules, break the law and I have no doubt that in 10-20yrs will be shown to be involved in the systematic cover up of abuse of detainees.
JWestland
hugo7
beautiful from Mark Steel
"This is why many commentators have made statements such as: “I’m as compassionate as anyone, and would happily dedicate my whole life to helping genuine refugees. But if some Afghan whose village has been shelled by warlords and had to live in a cave eating lizards carries his own mother across Hungary and then tries to come over here saying he’s 17 when he’s clearly 19, I’d be the first to strap him to a pedalo with masking tape and drop the ungrateful cockroach in the North Sea during a force nine gale.”"
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/refugee-children-calaid-jungle-dental-test-age-older-migrants-uk-mark-steel-a7372156.html