Explain this to me. Failed asylum seekers who cannot be returned to their home countries (e.g. Zimbabwe)?

Question

are not allowed to work. This is happening throughout Europe, not just in the UK. Why not? They have to be provided with a roof over their heads, clothed, fed and provided with health care. Does this make economic sense?

Answer 1

If they have failed at seeking asylum, then why are they not just being sent home?  I am confused.

Answer 2

As I understand it, an unsuccessful asylum seeker is deported. However, for Zimbabwe the deportations had been on hold but some are now being returned anyway http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...

And asylum seekers not being allowed to work makes sense. Remember, they will only be asylum seekers for a few months, until they are either successful or failed (and deported). Plus they can look for work if they are still here after 6 months.

Answer 3

Welcome to Gordon Moron Brown's world.

More sponging buggers for us to pay for.

Answer 4

All asylum seekers should be sent home,they walk around with top brand prams and clothes I can not afford to buy top brands why can they, They also have good cars when most or all are not insured and well more... get them out the lot of them.. Free Britain from the EU!

Answer 5

Robsteriark says it best.  The problem is that if failed asylum seekers were allowed to work people could use this as a way to get into the UK.  

ie you want to come to the UK but don't have the necessary skills to get a job here.  So you come here, claim asylum, knowing it will be refused.  Oh I can't be sent home so I have to stay - gimme a job.  Congrats.  You've just circumvented UK immigration law.  

Now you buy a house, a car, you settle down, your kids go to UK schools, oh I can't be sent home now I'm settled.  Target aim achieved.

At the moment we have had to cut down on non-EU immigration to preserve jobs for native peoples.  We are currently taking only highly-skilled people from non EU countries.

So if we allow failed asylum seekers to work we will suddenly have unskilled people coming from non-EU countries, claiming asylum, it fails, but they get the chance to stay and work anyway.

I agree the taxpayer shouldn't have to support them.  But when you consider that if they worked they would be claiming tax credits and all sorts of things plus potentially taking a job away from a legal citizen, its probably the lesser of the two evils.  We can't be "soft" on this - we have to make it clear that if your asylum claim fails you will not be allowed to work and earn lots of money, you will have a hard life on Government handouts and charity.  We have to do this to discourage bogus asylum seekers from coming here and playing the system.

I thnk that maybe the answer is that charities should provide accommodation, food, clothing and healthcare for these people, not the taxpayer.

Answer 6

No, but the argument is that if you do allow them to work then they will settle down, buy houses, cars etc. When their home country becomes safe again it's then harder to return them. Allowing them to work also encourages those who wish simply to emigrate from their home country to do so as asylum seekers rather than by following the officially correct procedure. Most European countries are already short of jobs, schools, healthcare and housing for their own nationals so immigration must be controlled but at the moment many countries have controls which are as much use as a chocolate tea-pot.

Sadly, the plight of genuine asylum seekers is frequently not viewed sympathetically because of the overwhelming numbers of those who abuse the process to use it as a back door entry method. In my experience, most of the genuine asylum seekers can hardly wait to return home although naturally the longer they're here, the more this urge decreases.

I'm not saying I agree to all the free handouts though, either, but much wiser heads than mine have consistently failed to come up with a solution which does not violate all sorts of existing domestic laws, European laws and international Treaties.