Monday - December 15, 2008

Asylum seekers should get benefits, says leading CONSERVATIVE (?) think-tank.

Sure wish someone could explain in terms I’d understand.  Must be me.  I don’t get it.

Tories are the Conservatives here.  I have to somehow shake off the thought that cons usually are right in all things.  We really aren’t ALWAYS correct.
But I don’t know too many conservatives who, when told they might have something wrong, take it as a personal attack on their character.
Anyway ... the idea that the govt. should pay folks in the hope they will not commit crimes is bizarre.  What kind of message is that?  What I personally believe is happening is, those folks (asylum seekers) see England a an easy and a soft touch and will take every single advantage of this place they can.  And when they succeed it’s because some Brits themselves have made it easy for them to do so.

I know this is apples and oranges and is not a view to build policy on but:

In 1939, England went to war with Germany because of their treaty to guarantee the territorial integrity of Poland.

In 2008, NOBODY seems to be worried about the integrity of these borders.  Or traditions, or religion or the culture and especially nobody seems to worry about costs except maybe the taxpayer.  But hey, when did he and she ever count except at election time?

Asylum seekers should get benefits, says leading Tory think-tank.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:18 AM on 15th December 2008

The think tank founded by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said failed asylum seekers should receive support.

Asylum seekers refused permission to live in the UK should continue to receive benefits to prevent them turning to crime, a report by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith’s think-tank said today.

The Government’s ‘nasty’ policy of refusing to support failed asylum seekers in an effort to force them to return home has failed, Mr Duncan Smith said.

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) report recommended sweeping changes to encourage failed asylum seekers to voluntarily go back to their country of origin.

The think tank found at least 26,000 failed asylum seekers in the UK are surviving on Red Cross food parcels.

There is a backlog of 280,000 failed applications which could take 20 years to clear, the CSJ warned.

The report said the existing system forces many refused applicants to face destitution or disappear off the authorities’ radar and drift into illegal employment, prostitution or crime.

It said: ‘Making refused asylum seekers homeless and penniless is hugely counterproductive.

‘It is much more difficult to work with them to encourage voluntary return or to ensure timely removal.’

The UK lags far behind countries such as Sweden or Canada in persuading failed asylum seekers to leave voluntarily, the report found. A forced removal costs around £11,000, 10-times as much as a voluntary return.

(according to some radio news reports, Sweden has an 80 percent rate of ppl who do return to their own country where the opposite is true of the UK. I haven’t a clue how true that is however.)

Mr Duncan Smith said: ‘The policy of making asylum seekers destitute is mean and nasty and has not worked.’

In a preface to the report, he said: ‘The evidence gathered for this report shows that the welcome offered today falls far short of our traditional standards.
asylum seekers

For the rest of this nonsense, go
HERE

Posted by peiper     on 12/15/2008 at 08:09 AM   
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