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

Greece have had a huge problem for many years. I remember my mum & dad, whilst on holiday there, saying that the locals were at their wits end, local shops & restaurants every morning had human excrement & urine to clean up from their shop doorways.
Migrants would be coming up to the restaurant windows, whilst holiday makers were trying to enjoy a meal.
The railings on the front were used as makeshift washing lines. Dirty nappies just left on the floor (must have been families back in the day). They have had enough. You can’t blame them!

Aveline

That's just the ones that are picked up officially. I have seen videos of these rubber boats landing on beaches and black lads just running for it into suburban streets. God knows where they go from there. I feel very sorry for people living in these south coast towns.

I live in Dover. When I walk up the town, I am lucky if I hear one British voice. I find it quite frightening, partly because they just walk through you - they never move across, just barge on. I hate it! Whatever I feel about their needs, motives etc., (this isn’t the place to discuss those) I hate the fact they are invading my town and impacting on my life.

Mt61

Bridie22

If this law is international, how come some countries have stopped people entering their countries? Ie Australia

Poland for one don’t want them, & go to great lengths to keep them out.

I've never really understood the cherry picking nature within the EU, in its lack of uniformity pertaining to immigration, so much so, that certain countries buckle under the weight of what they are expected to deal with and then those such as Poland and Hungary just don't play any part at all. Italy and Greece both buckling under the weight of asylum seeker migration for some considerable time have sought unilateral solutions, Italy in their arrangement with Albania and more lately Greece pushed to the wall simply locking them up. Surely the countries in Eastern Europe should have been made to step up and take some of these people, they've proved themselves to be a dead loss in this respect.

Their not there
Haven’t woken up yet!

It was my understanding that there placements were managed by serco and they were transported to various immigration centres across the country before being placed in further housing after assessment. Some of this housing will be in empty home office buildings

Bridie22

If this law is international, how come some countries have stopped people entering their countries? Ie Australia

Poland for one don’t want them, & go to great lengths to keep them out.

nanna8

Still wondering where and how they are going to wherever. Is it random or are they taken to various towns ? It is very rude and very strange to label people as right wing just because they ask perfectly reasonable questions. I don’t even live in the UK but am still wondering where they go and how things are organised. No axe to grind, doesn’t affect me.

Angela Rayner wants every town to take their share of these people.

vegansrock

MY next door neighbour housed a refugee for a couple of years. He was fleeing conflict in Sudan. His family had been killed or imprisoned . He couldn't work legally but did various jobs for people in exchange for food/ fixing his bike/ the odd bit of cash. He was an athlete and joined the local running club and ran marathons etc so training took up a lot of his time. He was very polite and quiet. He did eventually get a place in a government hostel outside of London but kept in touch with my neighbour. He came back to visit last week with the news that he’d been granted leave to remain -TEN YEARS after arriving. He's also got a job for the first time in 10 years. Good for him but Surely this length of time is unacceptable. The Home Office needs to speed up its processing.

He’s sounds like one of the genuine people that needs our help. Ten years is far too long to process someone.

I want to know when Labour are going to smash the gangs of people smugglers. Shame Rwanda plans weren't taken forward.

If this law is international, how come some countries have stopped people entering their countries? Ie Australia

The law relating to this is international - amending might take a very very long time!! -= even supposing this was the right and decent thing to do.

Maybe it's time to amend some laws?

Aveline

How can their claims ever be processed if they have no documents?
Young male economic migrants should just be turned round and sent back to where they came from.

But doing that contravenes the law on asylum. Are you saying the UK should break the law?

I am not saying there is not a huge problems and nor am I saying that the current system for processing people is not seriously flawed. But I am saying that it is simplistic to suggest that there is an easy solution.... just send them back.

Starmer has the right approach in that he wishes to emasculate the gangs who profit from this trade, but we need to understand that there is no magic wand for achieving this - that it will all take time.

I've already posted my suggestion

What do those who criticise think should be done with these people?
We have asylum laws and these have to be followed.
Or shall we just tip them all in the sea?

Aveline

How can their claims ever be processed if they have no documents?
Young male economic migrants should just be turned round and sent back to where they came from.

All migrants, male and female should be turned round and sent back to where they came from.

I'm certain my late father didn't serve 6 years in the army or my late mother work 12 hour shifts in a munitions factory for it to come to this . Where was the land fit for heroes after the war that they were promised ? They got nothing, they had to start from scratch and work for it. Let this immigrants stay in their own countries and do the same. This country is a laughing stock .

Still wondering where and how they are going to wherever. Is it random or are they taken to various towns ? It is very rude and very strange to label people as right wing just because they ask perfectly reasonable questions. I don’t even live in the UK but am still wondering where they go and how things are organised. No axe to grind, doesn’t affect me.

MY next door neighbour housed a refugee for a couple of years. He was fleeing conflict in Sudan. His family had been killed or imprisoned . He couldn't work legally but did various jobs for people in exchange for food/ fixing his bike/ the odd bit of cash. He was an athlete and joined the local running club and ran marathons etc so training took up a lot of his time. He was very polite and quiet. He did eventually get a place in a government hostel outside of London but kept in touch with my neighbour. He came back to visit last week with the news that he’d been granted leave to remain -TEN YEARS after arriving. He's also got a job for the first time in 10 years. Good for him but Surely this length of time is unacceptable. The Home Office needs to speed up its processing.

Aveline

That's just the ones that are picked up officially. I have seen videos of these rubber boats landing on beaches and black lads just running for it into suburban streets. God knows where they go from there. I feel very sorry for people living in these south coast towns.

True. The most worrying aspect, for me, is that these are overwhelmingly young men probably originating from countries that have a mysoginist-based culture where respect for women is appallingly low.

If, as many claim, they are fleeing regimes where murder, torture, gang-rape, etc, is practically the norm then why are they leaving their womenfolk behind to face these terrors?

Frogoet

A lot of people here are swallowing the right wing media. It is not a piece of cake waiting to get leave to stay- refugee status. They cannot work even voluntarily. Very limited resources. If lucky they live near a city with access to charities who can help with family reunification and house and job hunting once they have leave.
I worked with those waiting.
They were largely very appreciative and if they trusted you told you their stories. Murdered police brothers, smashed kneecaps for being in opposition, gay …

A lot won’t have those stories to tell. A lot will be coming for the perks! Why get rid of their papers if they are all genuine? I would keep my papers so that this government would know which war torn country I was fleeing from.
The Eastern Europeans aren’t fighting a war, are they? I have no problem with genuine refugees coming here for help.

Bazza

Many thanks for all those who bothered to reply to my thread. I usually swerve opening a post on such an emotive subject, and I won’t be doing it again!

Gransnet can be lovely and very supportive, but sometimes you need a thick skin!

Many thanks for all those who bothered to reply to my thread. I usually swerve opening a post on such an emotive subject, and I won’t be doing it again!

Oreo

It all the appeals that stymie the asylum process, appeal after appeal.
If we want to be generous, then one appeal only and then either accepted here or deported.

Lawyers make an absolute fortune out of these appeals…
We are a joke, not just the asylum problem, cost-of-living crisis, crime.. So much wrong with this country and it seems so little will to do too much about it by our politicians..

It all the appeals that stymie the asylum process, appeal after appeal.
If we want to be generous, then one appeal only and then either accepted here or deported.

How can their claims ever be processed if they have no documents?
Young male economic migrants should just be turned round and sent back to where they came from.