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let's just assume what you're saying is true, and youre not being a troll. And I know I'm being incredibly simplistic here, and there's a lot of other issues, not least cultural and economic but...
There were 3,460 asylum applications to the UK from Afghanistan in the year ending June 2016, of which 35% were granted (1,211) (source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/august2016)
Let's assume (being generous here) that all of them send £10,000 back to their greedy families in Afghanistan. That means an additional c. £12 million is going out the UK so the tax man is missing out on the 20% VAT on all of that £10k pp meaning he takes a tax hit of £2,400,000 per year additionally from those migrants.
However, they get taxed on those earnings before they receive them. So, in order to send £10,000 back a year I assume they'd have to earn at least £20,000 a year. Which means on £20K a year they pay they'll pay £1,800 income tax and £1,433 in National Insurance. So the 'tax man' makes c. £4,000,000 a year.
So net bonus of £1.6 mill.
Ker ching!
Don't just repeat what you hear