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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
According to this article there are close to a million more that may be waiting until May when the new EU countries are added. Can the British economy handle another million poor immigrants looking for work and free health care and other services?
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um, it is so hard to have this conversation without it inviting the racists in because the whole assylum issue is so huge here at the moment that it has been used to back an upsurge in membership to the British National Party (BNP).
Also, as an immigrant myself I always feel like I come down very easily on the side of assylum cases. However, I do see why people get worked up because there is a problem with bogus assylum seakers and in particular people looking for economic assylum.
The rules are suppose to be that they stop in the first safe country. The UK is an island so obviously they have to go through other countries to get here. However, that leads to a lot of people in the UK thinking that none of the other countries in the EU take part of the load when that isn't the whole truth.
Germany takes a good portion for example but places like France have been all too happy to turn a blind eye as people hide in trucks, or try to hitch a ride underneat a Eurostar train into the UK.
seriously...I live on the edge of the city and I often go out to the shops or something and find that the people from the Gypsy camp across the street are letting horses graze on the lawn of my apartment block.