In reference to some of your points Catfish this is how i see it and im not claiming to be right or wrong here:
The UK spends a lot of money in foreign aid to better countries around the world, unfortunately these countries seem to squander a lot of this money and channel it to off shore accounts thus depriving the people.
Charities like Oxfam and the likes employ a CEO which takes a large salary from the donations, then the rest of the monies ends up in wealth creation funds such as buildings for private rent and other speculative wealth creation, out of all the donations id definatly like to see what actually gets spent on the cause.
So these people are being short changed twice by well wishers.
Secondly il add this: your a 20 year old and your family is happy for you to take all the money they have and give it away to a criminal organisation (thats exactly what they are) and trust them that they wont take off with the money, or sell you into the sex or slavery trade, or thaat they wont abuse you or kill you.
Your going to pay a lot of money for someone to help you get into a country and to risk your life and if it goes wrong theres no come backs your on your own and if you die you die but the criminal is thousands of dollars richer and your family is poorer.
so lets say they get to the UK they try to claim asylem and get refused and deported back to country of origin, what have they spent that money for to go right back to square one, and guess what they just made it harder for themselves to try and return.
Im sorry catfish but you cleaarly have not had to deal with these people nor have you seen them operate in the places like Calais unfortunately i have and the companies ive worked for its cost them so far tens of millions of pounds.
You want to know why there is a drug shortage in the NHS ? yes you can in some ways link it to these people, while assisting a co worker in my former job he relayed to me that in the space of two months he had had 7 loads of pharmacuticals rejected due to these very people breaking into trucks along the corridor (A16) once they are in the load is no longer sterile and it is always re routed to Edmunton incinerator for destruction.
Those 7 loads were easily over the 10 million mark alone, thats without the damage they cause to trucks and trailers and the other economic problems they bring to the table, and also the people of the UK dependant on those drugs arriving on time that now have to wait longer some cases too long. (if your wondering DFDS brings in around 30% of drugs made in the EU to the UK)
these people under the UN charter must present themselves to authorities in the first safe country they can then file for asylem in the UK.
Having been out to calais and other areas theres a shortage of women in the camps these people are not escaping war in a lot of the countries they come from they are just trying to get to the UK in the hope they get a house and some money.
Having lived in the southeast and had these people around it has caused nothing but issues, and granted not all of it their fault at all.
When i came to Canada i had to pass an english test and im a native speaker, now alot of these people cant speak read or write english therefore their employment prospects are next to zero in the UK therefore they cease to be a economic benefit and become a economic hindrence.
Do i blame them for wanting to come to the UK or other western countries for a better life?
NO I DONT all i ask is do it the right way and il support that and even help.
But smashing up trucks, causing harm to drivers (so far 2 have been killed i know of), flouting laws, and engaging in criminal activity
im sorry i cannot support that.
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