Where are the immigrants taken when they arrive in the uk?

Jaxjacky

Spot on Maybee70.

Bazza isn’t a new user 😊

Read the OP again. It says specifically that it doesn't want to reopen the subject.

Sorry Jax, meant to reply to Maybee70

A perfectly legitimate subject for discussion.

I think Bazza has been trying to stir up feelings and start a debate - he surely reads newspapers/watches tv/sees things online. He knows the answers to his own questions here.

Aveline

Read the OP again. It says specifically that it doesn't want to reopen the subject.

So what did they want us to discuss, the price of eggs in Tesco’s 🤷‍♀️

Primrose53

MayBee70

BlueBelle

Why is this on ‘site stuff’?

Just so they can start another similar thread in another part of the forum under the pretext of it being a different subject [sigh...].

Maybe it is someone unused to the site. I don’t recognise the name.

Bazza has been on Gransnet for years.

It was a perfectly reasonable question but obviously some posters see it differently.

Perhaps it was just a mistake putting it under Site Stuff.

HowVeryDareYou2

I think Bazza has been trying to stir up feelings and start a debate - he surely reads newspapers/watches tv/sees things online. He knows the answers to his own questions here.

He?

Why assume Bazza is a man?

I know a Barry who is known as Bazza. Keep your wig on

Never assume anything.

Jaxjacky

Initially to Manston in Kent, a secure site, for security and identity checks, it’s a former RAF site.

What kind of identity check can you do on someone with no passport. And can't speak English? Ir so they say.

The whole situation if it wasn't so serious. Is an absolute joke. A pantomine

No I am not a man! Perhaps I used the wrong site, but I’m not trying to stir up feelings, goodness knows there have been enough threads on immigrants. I just genuinely wondered if anyone knew the logistics of housing so many people, whether they’re immigrants or not. I really didn’t mean to rattle any one, and I’m sorry if I inadvertently did. And just for the record I’ve been on Gransnet for years.

Don't worry, Bazza!

No, you're not on the wrong site, posters are allowed to start threads, ask questions, as long as it is within guidelines.
Other posters may not like it, but that is their problem. They could answer with sensible information if they wished to do so.

Jaxjacky

Initially to Manston in Kent, a secure site, for security and identity checks, it’s a former RAF site.

Thanks, JaxJacky

Actually, it is stated 'reception centres' so not just one.

Maybe it would help when discussing the subject to distinguish between 'immigrants' and 'illegal migrants'. Yes, it's a legitimate subject to discuss but too often there is no informed discussion, just ranting and throwing about wild accusations stirred up by the usual trashy newspapers/media and the latest diatribe from the representative of Clacton (who seems unable to find his way there to represent his constituents).

Well where do they go then ? Are they dispersed throughout the country or do they all just stay round the South coast area?
Do they get sent to Scotland and the north? If they are filling up hotels where do tourists actually go ? Who feeds them, do they get free meals or do they have to buy their own?

nanna8

Well where do they go then ? Are they dispersed throughout the country or do they all just stay round the South coast area?
Do they get sent to Scotland and the north? If they are filling up hotels where do tourists actually go ? Who feeds them, do they get free meals or do they have to buy their own?

I think the opening post was a perfectly reasonable one.

The News shows people arriving in this country from rubber dinghies, they are escorted ashore wrapped in blankets or whatever those foil coats are.

Then that’s it. I have often wondered where they go next. I know all about the hotels, but they seem to be full of single men. Where are the women and children sent?

I have asked this before, and been told there are very few women and children. That’s odd, as it’s always them who get spoken about when the dangerous crossings are mentioned.

As for who pays for everything, the accommodation, food, spending money, health care….well, as a tax payer, I do.

It’s not ‘The Government’, it’s the good old British tax payer.

I note the usual reference to "our homeless". The issue of homelessness, particularly on the streets, is not a new one and should not be seen as a result of immigrants.

My feeling is that various social issues - poverty, rising rents, sale of council housing, broken homes and addiction - or a combination of some or all of these factors, are why we have so much homelessness.

Also, many years ago, psychiatric and mental disability hospitals were emptied and have now, in the main, been sold and turned into expensive - sometimes gated - housing developments. Their needs were meant to be catered for with "care in the community", which has worked for some, though hasn't really addressed addiction issues. When people were in crisis in those days, they could turn to these institutions for temporary shelter and help - now you will see people who have very obvious mental health and addiction issues sleeping rough on the streets.

If the government has reduced the number of hotels they have been using to house migrants, but the number of migrants landing is still rising, it is a reasonable question to ask " where are they being housed" and surely it must impact on availability of accommodation to homeless people, people looking for homes to rent and people needing emergency accommodation?

I note the usual reference to "our homeless". The issue of homelessness, particularly on the streets, is not a new one and should not be seen as a result of immigrants.

It's not, although it could exacerbate it - but what are we doing about it?

nanna8

Well where do they go then ? Are they dispersed throughout the country or do they all just stay round the South coast area?
Do they get sent to Scotland and the north? If they are filling up hotels where do tourists actually go ? Who feeds them, do they get free meals or do they have to buy their own?

Plenty up North, all wandering up & down. Saw two fighting yesterday, nearly knocking an elderly man on to a busy road 😩

I’ve seen three now, all bare footed. One came on my mums bus bare footed swinging a chain. What’s that all about?
Bus driver didn’t throw him off the bus.
Mum said she was frightened to death.

Mt61

I’ve seen three now, all bare footed. One came on my mums bus bare footed swinging a chain. What’s that all about?
Bus driver didn’t throw him off the bus.
Mum said she was frightened to death.

Seen loads but three of them were bare footed I should have said.

It would appear there is no answer.