City MP blasted over immigration (From Daily Echo)

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  loosehead wrote:
  

  Inform Al wrote:
  Anyone escaping from Mugabe's Zimbabwean hell hole is a genuine refugee and I'm pleased that some are allowed to stay. It's only because the country is overfull that genuine asylum seekers are being sent back to suffer despotic regimes such as Zimbabwe and Iran. Sooner we get out of the EU and stop taking their cheap labour, the better.

  I have nothing against them as I'm married to a Thai Lady!
  But isn't the rules ( International) That all Asylum/Refugees seek out the nearest safe country to seek refuge & not travel thousands of miles to the safest cash cow?
  Just remember I watched as Ian Smith Declared Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain & how all Black & White people were cheering & dancing.
  then when they get what they want they come here seeking refuge?

  Genuine asylum seekers are at a relatively low figure (was its lowest ever in 2006) and through the late '00s was only around 20,000 a year. Despite the Daily Mail notion of shopping around, research shows that we are not the chosen port of call as you suggest for many legitimate refugees.
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  Our true refugee/asylum stance is something we as a nation should be proud of (despite the minority of abuses and exceptions).
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  The issue of EU immigration is another debate and considering all the three main parties are pro EU, then apart from temporary transition periods we have to accept the influx of Europeans.
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  Now if Cllr Smith wants to make a point about that then he needs to take it up with DC."
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