Asylum, illegal immigration, economic migrants, political asylum

ASYLUM + ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION + ECONOMIC MIGRANTS + POLITICAL ASYLUM

Asylum * illegal immigration * economic migrants * political asylum seekers * migrant workers * people trafficking * immigrant enclaves * integration * language barriers * social security benefits

There is both a short term and long term solution to the problem of Asylum seekers and illegal immigrants that would put an end to people trafficking and unsustainable economic migration.

THE LONG TERM SOLUTION

The long term solution is to encourage businesses to invest in poorer countries and pay a decent wage comparable to the cost of housing and living in that country. If people are able to cut out a decent lifestyle in their country of birth, most would choose to stay where they are and economic migration would be curtailed.

Likewise, if you remove despots and dictators, political asylum applicants would be greatly reduced and remove the argument to accept asylum seekers from these countries. It would also remove the excuse that many illegal immigrants and economic migrants use to try and stay in a country.

Remove the problems and you remove the supply and demand from the people traffickers who prey on these poor people.

THE SHORT TERM SOLUTION

Many asylum seekers are simply economic migrants, others are illegal immigrants seeking to slip into countries were they perceive life will be easier, income possibilities higher and the social welfare system more generous and easy to obtain benefits.

We live in a world that appears to have gone politically correct mad. Civil liberty campaigners call to open all borders and shout "Come on come all." The reality is that many countries cannot facilitate or accommodate an open border policy where economic migrants and illegal immigrants simply flood in to take advantage of free housing and generous social benefits.

This may appear to contradict our long term aim of having a one world government with open borders. It does not. The problems caused by the inequalities of nationalistic policies have to be solved before we start to open borders. Solve the problems that cause migration and the need to seek a new life elsewhere is removed.

We are so busy trying to protect the human rights of a few illegal immigrants that we forget the human rights of the majority of people who live hard working lives and pay their taxes.

Make it harder for illegal immigrants to stay by sending them back immediately to the country that harboured them. Economic migrants that repeated flout the laws in France for example, by trying to smuggle themselves onto ferries and trains should be deported back to their own countries. No legal process or hearing, they shouldn't be there and they should understand that if they enter any country illegally, they will be deported immediately.
No one entering a country illegally should be offered housing or benefits of any kind.
Anyone providing housing or work to any illegal immigrants should have their property and business confiscated. Make the penalty fit society not the crime.
Introduce identity cards that have to be produced to obtain housing and work.
Remove the benefits and advantages that illegal immigrants seek and you remove the desire to enter a country illegally.

We appreciate that these people are seeking a better life and we should be doing everything to help them improve their own lives in their own countries. Immigration should be controlled and encouraged when countries need skilled workers, specialist trades and or have a shortage of people to fill gaps in the workforce.

However, integration into these communities should be high on the agenda of all countries. Nationalities and religions tend to stick together and set up their own enclaves forcing established communities out or making them feel threatened and isolated. This then causes racial tension and other problems.

A typical example of this is British expats buying property and moving into the French countryside, where French communities are finding they are no longer the majority. House prices have risen dramatically as a result, making it extremely difficult for your French people to get on the housing ladder and to add insult to injury, may British expats make no attempt to learn the language and integrate into the community.

Instead, they set up their clubs, associations and churches and simply live life as if they were back in the UK, ostracising many French people, some of whom are the only French people left living in a village.

This type of peaceful invasion is happening everywhere by immigrants of all nationalities and religion who fail to see the problems it causes and fail to take the lifestyle and culture of the country into consideration that they have moved to.

It doesn't matter what your nationality, religion or culture is; if you move to another country, you should have to adopt the laws and culture of that country and integrate; not set up enclaves and continue to live the same way as you have always lived.