"Asylum Seekers" Go On Holiday To Their "Unsafe" Country...

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2037366/asylum-seekers-return-iran-holiday

This is seriously taking the urine. How did they get back into the country anyway? Do they have British passports?

[Old_Geezer]

Just shows what a bunch of nutters we have in charge of the nation.

[New Judge]

It was the same with many of the Ukranian so-called refugees. 

Large numbers of them deemed it safe enough to return home to see their folks and take a short break.

The people of this country are being taken for a very long and expensive ride.

 

[newmodarmy]

If they don't come back that's a good outcome for us and them.if they do come back, presumably by same route including by boat across the channel then there's a chance some won't make it and even if they do we 've at least avoided having them for a couple of months.

Or do they now have fake British  passports?

I think we may have half a story. If it is happening it'll only be a handful of cases surely.

[New Judge]

But that's not really the point.

What this illustrates is that the nonsense they (and many of the others) are spouting to be allowed to stay here (that they would be in mortal danger or whatever if forced to return) is just that - nonsense. And our authoriies fall for it, costing the taxpayer £££billions.

[ToraToraTora]

I still don't understand how they get back. Have they been accepted and now have British passports or some kind of other travel docs?

[newmodarmy]

I get that New judge and obviously many or most are not fleeing anywhere.  But is this story true and dies it happen quite a lot? I doubt it. Ttt asks how they get back... I'm wondering first how they leave the UK to get to Iran. Certainly not by dinghy.

[New Judge]

Near the bottom of the BBC article:

“The three individuals are all care leavers, over the age of 18, obtained travel documents legally and followed the appropriate Home Office Asylum claim processes,” they added.

Which still doesn't explain how it was too dangerous for them to return when their claims were assessed but not so when they went on holiday.

It also doesn't explain, if their country is now safe enough for them to have a two month visit, why they have not been returned (as asylum is supposed  to provide temporary safe haven, not "a new life").

[newmodarmy]

Yes I know its nonsense nj... I just hadn't seen the bit that said they had legal documents. Ģthey should have been given one way tickets or denied access yo the flight or refused entry on their return. 

[naomi24]

This country is barmy.

[youngmafbog]

Country has been going to the dogs for some time now.  Let the third world in, become the third world.

The underlying issue here though is that very soon the publics patience (across Europe) will wear thin and even genuine people needing asylum will be caught in it.

If it isnt stopped soon there is going to be some serious violence/uprising in one of the countries that could well trigger it across others.

Lets hope those that Govern get a grip before that happens.

Not holding my breath though :-(

[New Judge]

"But is this story true and dies it happen quite a lot?"

It certainly happens with the Unkranians. A prominent journalist hosted a mother and her two teenage children. At least one of the children returned to take exams and all three returned at one time or another to "visit family." I believe all three have returned to Ukraine now. I doubt they were unique.

Many others who have been granted asylum because it is too dangerous for them in their homelands regularly make visits. Among the most prominent of these are those from Pakistan (almost 10,000 asylum applications last year).

Twenty MPs have recenly voiced support for the construction of a new airport at a place called Mirpur in that country because many of their constituents have connecions there. Unfortunately they have to make an 80 mile road journey upon their arrival: 

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/25054990.row-bolton-mps-support-mirpur-kashmir-airport/

[fender62]

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trade and travel links, trade erm what? all i see is a faster route for more people to come in.

Ms Qureshi said that she hopes the Pakistani government will 

fulful its commitment to a new airport and that she will “never apologise for raising issues on behalf of my constituents.”

She said: “This would improve trade and travel links between the UK and a part of Pakistan that has a significant diaspora, both here locally in Bolton and in the UK more widely, without costing the British taxpayer any money.