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Ok-Tap-4824 t1_ir6vkmn wrote

Reply to comment by SterlingMNO in UK to seek asylum ban on refugees crossing the English Channel by DavidMalony

>You're making the assumption that every illegal immigrant speaks fluent English and nothing else, and has family in the UK, which isn't true. So why are you so bent out of shape?

I dont think I am. I'm saying that people who flee a country might be logically resettled somewhere that isn't the first safe country they set foot in. I don't see the point in discussing anything further if you're going to attribute things to me that I haven't written.

Nowhere did I say that "every illegal immigrant speaks fluent English." Or anything remotely similar.

If you want to know if thats what I'm assuming, ask. Don't just attribute things to me that I haven't written.

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SterlingMNO t1_ir6xp5g wrote

> Nowhere did I say that "every illegal immigrant speaks fluent English." Or anything remotely similar.

But that's your only fucking argument that you keep bringing up even after I agreed. If an asylum seeker already has family in the UK and speaks English, I have no problem with their settled status being preferential to the UK rather than them being sent to Finland. But it doesn't matter that I say this because next comment you'll repeat yourself.

> If you want to know if thats what I'm assuming, ask. Don't just attribute things to me that I haven't written.

It's too late for that after the "But 100 million people could move to france tomorrow legally" comment, you don't know what you're talking about.

  • You don't know the difference between an asylum seeker and a working migrant.
  • You don't know that asylum seekers cannot work and are state-sponsored.
  • You don't know the rules of the EU.
  • You don't know that a large number of illegal immigrants across the channel are economic migrants not asylum seekers that left their families back home where they can't return because "they'll be killed" so they can make better money in the UK.
  • You don't recognise that asylum seekers can't work
  • You repeat the "BUT WHAT IF THEY SPEAK ENGLISH" line literally 4 times with the same answer each time
  • You don't understand the need for limits on immigration because EU freedom of movement exists, in the EU, which is largely made up of wealthy countries with similar cultures.

Like I said, if you can find a place for them to live, money to support them, then go and make your case to the government to set up a ferry from Calais. Until then, that's the reason why the number of asylum seekers any country takes in is limited, France included.

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