Should We Treat Asylum Seekers As Aussies Do?

[eyethenkyew]

http://www.dailymail....migrants-Britain.html

http://www.dailymail....-detention-camps.html

Here we are in the UK having to spend who knows how much tracking down 150,000 illegal immigrants when Australia have clamped down and are providing idyllic island holiday camps for their asylum seekers.

We have loads of islands around our coast - why not do the same? At least we'd know where these people were and they could be dealt with far quicker instead of having to try to find 150,000 needles in haystacks.

I think the Aussies have it spot on.

[doctordb]

The government are ahead of you, they have been removing the very strange from society and 'storing' them on islands for years. If you want proof take a trip to the isle of wight. :-)

[eyethenkyew]

Thanks, I'll take your word for it!

[rojash]

"take a trip to the isle of wight"
... or Australia

[Gromit]

So Australia are banishing undesirables to a remote island far away. I wonder where they got that idea from?

[joeluke]

If we didn't let them in in the first place then we wouldn't have to 'try to find 150,000 needles in haystacks'

[friedgreentomato]

No - many years ago my father visited one of those 'prisons' and the conditions were disgusting - if an animal was kept in those conditions the owners would have been prosecuted!

[abstibus]

This is not directly related but...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...gland-sussex-19267575
How on earth did this man get into the UK?
The UKBA should hang its head in shame.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, until allowed into the country legally we should keep them in transit camps. Don't need to be prisons and dont need to be hell holes but neither do they need to be million pound mansions in Kensington.

[anotheoldgit]

What has happened to those camps across the Channel? Keep them their until they can prove this is the next safest country from whence they came.

All illegals who have smuggled themselves into this country, should be sent back across the Channel and dumped.

[sandyRoe]

It's a curious form of island holiday camp where the guests resort to sewing their own lips together as a form of protest.

http://www.ntnews.com...23/274071_ntnews.html

[eyethenkyew]

All I can say is that those who are sewing their lips together or self harming are clearly attention seekers and not genuine human beings fleeing persecution. What is the point in inflicting physical injury on yourself when you have arrived in a country where you are then safe?

Also, the vast majority of these people 'seeking asylum' whether it be us or Australia etc, all tend to bypass other perfectly legitimate democracies. Now I don't know enough about the Aussies and their welfare state to comment, but is anyone going to argue that the vast majority of them are simply economic migrants as opposed to people in genuine danger of their lives? For a start, how can they prove their claims other than verbally?

"Charity begins at home", and indeed it should. Many here are losing jobs and homes because of our own economic recession and that at least is one good reason why we shouldn't burden our own economy with people who have deliberately gone out of their way to make sure they land on our shores.

Therefore we should take as many precautions as possible to vet anyone's credentials - that alone costs a small fortune - and if that involves keeping them all in the equivalent to military style barracks to ensure that they don't disappear in the meantime, then I for one are am for it.

[emmie]

its amazing that the councils can spot a litterbug from 20 feet away, using close circuit tv, yet other government departments are losing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants every year, makes you wonder at our watched society.