I find it amazing the things people say about Asylum seekers in this country.
I was in a Taxi and the Taxi driver was going on a Xenophobic rants, saying about how rich they are and how they're treated too well.
It got me to wondering - how do people get this information, without actually encountering it for themselves?
We've had some stay at our b&b before (mainly from Iran) and they were poverty-stricken, with barely enough to feed their children. Hardly walking around with the latest mobile phones.
It's a shame it has become such a 'dirty' phrase as well - people seem to have forgotten that the definition of aslyum seeker is someone who is fleeing for their lives. Would someone going on a rant against letting them stay in this country actually go to a family and tell them to go back to a country where they would be killed?
What do you think?
(C'mon, this makes a slight change from all the war stuff
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I was in a Taxi and the Taxi driver was going on a Xenophobic rants, saying about how rich they are and how they're treated too well.
It got me to wondering - how do people get this information, without actually encountering it for themselves?
We've had some stay at our b&b before (mainly from Iran) and they were poverty-stricken, with barely enough to feed their children. Hardly walking around with the latest mobile phones.
It's a shame it has become such a 'dirty' phrase as well - people seem to have forgotten that the definition of aslyum seeker is someone who is fleeing for their lives. Would someone going on a rant against letting them stay in this country actually go to a family and tell them to go back to a country where they would be killed?
What do you think?
(C'mon, this makes a slight change from all the war stuff
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