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Originally Posted by jonbxx
But what is a 'good proportion'? Does anyone know for sure how many people are abusing the system?
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Abusing what system? IIRC the general rule is that anyone claiming asylum should do so in the first safe country they arrive in and the UK doesn't usually remove anyone who hasn't done so back to that country so if they get here they are dealt with here. Whilst I can fully appreciate why they don't do so, anyone who doesn't do that is technically abusing the system IMHO. The numbers of migrants who manage to gain entry into the UK illegally by one means or another (whether on lorries from Calais or by means of false ID) is by definition unknown. What isn't unknown is that there are vast numbers of people around the globe who wish to migrate into Europe and take their chances here. The growing numbers being picked up off the coast of Italy and Greece testify to that.