Except many of them are not, they are economic migrants. And some have even realised that claiming that they're persecuted for lgbt reasons is an instant in - there was a case with a guy (with a wife and a bunch of children) that claimed to have written a pro lgbt article and now he's persecuted.
As a gay man the thought of that sickens me, economic migrants using who I am as a shortcut to entry, I have no problem at all with genuinely lgbt individuals seeking refugee status; we're still persecuted in so many places and there's not enough of us to make change happen in those places.
But the economic migrants...all they're doing is ensuring their home country never improves and that a steady stream of migrants continues into Europe. It'll never end.
Your misstating their concerns. I don't know whether you are misinformed or doing so deliberately.
The migrants on the boats are not people fleeing persecution. Firstly these boats are coming from France. Are you claiming that France is persecuting people?
Secondly. I have a relative that work in social services. They do age assessments. These men claim they are children. It takes time to do these age assessments to take place and process and while that is happening they have to be housed. Since they claim they are children, they have to be put into foster homes. So foster homes are forced to take strange men, while an age assessment is taking place. This is an obvious risk to the actual children housed there.
These migrants talk to each other and have worked out that if register with Counties outside of London it will take longer for them to be found out, because the local authorities in these counties have less resources to process them. One of these men admitted as much over the phone.
Things like this are what people are unhappy about. They don't have an issue with legitimate asylum claims. People aren't divided on this issue BTW.
In my high school drivers ed there was a kid who looked like he was in his 20's with a full thick beard, stocky muscular build, deep voice. I thought he got left back a bunch but turns out he was my age - 16. So "obviously not a kid" doesn't really work and potentially puts people at risk.
So do you think that after you get a couple miles away from something, you're no longer fleeing it when you keep going? An argument like this doesn't make you sound very credible.
> These men claim they are children.
What percent of the migrants are you talking about here?
Assume good faith.
You'll probably find how few places let you in as economic migrants.
Holding the door open for fake asylum seekers costing billions while his fellow countrymen are laid off, and pointing the finger at MPs taking a few million between them.
Edit: there is no need to be jumping to stark conclusions which only add to the division being spread throughout the world.
If you disagree that’s fine but it’s quite telling that your response isn’t well thought out or based on any logical argument
Instead of questioning how MPs are entitled to a pay rise while your average person gets made redundant, people are questioning why people fleeing persecution should ‘be paid for with my tax money’.
Brain fatigue and mixed signals combined with destitution and desperation drastically impede the average person’s ability and desire to fact check and extrapolate. We are moving towards a society of down and out people living with no hope serving the elite and those with a bit of money behind them.
My fiancée and I have had enough and are also leaving in October. No idea where to all we know is we have a one way ticket away and will figure the rest out.