Eine verdeckte BBC-Untersuchung ergab, dass Rechtsberater Migranten dabei helfen, sich als schwul auszugeben, um Asyl zu bekommen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c937wldkkw8o
Von sjw_7
Eine verdeckte BBC-Untersuchung ergab, dass Rechtsberater Migranten dabei helfen, sich als schwul auszugeben, um Asyl zu bekommen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c937wldkkw8o
Von sjw_7
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>One immigration adviser boasted that she had spent more than 17 years helping bring fake claims and said she could arrange for someone to pretend they’d had a gay sexual relationship with a client
It would be interesting to know the real scale of it all. Similar stories pop up a few times every year.
This is people defrauding the UK taxpayer on a huge scale.
It costs £1000’s for these lawyers, and how do asylum seekers pay them? Legal Aid.
How much have been lost to this fraud over the years.
Just ban all asylum claims from Pakistan and Bangladesh at this point. The system is clearly completely broken
Thing that we were told wasn’t happening is found once again to have been happening.
I don’t see how you can stop people posing as gay or any other protected group honestly to claim asylum beyond taking a „not persecuted until proven“ approach that could exclude genuine cases.
I’m gay, go to many gay events including kink events, am married to a man and have a lot of evidence to support that, but it’s nothing a determined person couldn’t recreate themselves if they really wanted to.
The Government have got to get a grip on this, but it’s hard to know why they should do. Lawyers and advisors can tie up the process with claim after claim, each of which then needs to be investigated, which is time consuming and resource intensive. Reminds me of a scene from Better Call Saul where Saul is defending his client from a company that wants to demolish his house, and he just throws every defence at them to tie the case up in bureaucracy – it’s an archaeology site, there are radioactive minerals in the soil, etc.
It’s an ugly situation, and I don’t think anyone wants genuine asylum seekers coming to harm because of rampant exploitation of the system by greedy individuals and institutions, but that’s what’s going to happen. While I don’t believe Farage and his ilk would materially change much should they get into power, there are a lot of people up and down the country whose patience has just run out, and they’ll take matters into their own hands.
This is where we need to have an honest conversation about how easily the system is exploited, wasting large amounts of money on people who don’t genuinely need help. There’s a lot of people burying their heads in the sand and when cases like this have been brought up in the past (an asylum seeker claiming to be gay then going on to marry and have children in the UK) it has been brushed off as them being bi. Refusing to acknowledge these issues is just leaving a huge open goal for Reform. I remember a post on here before from somebody who said they had stopped attending an LGBTQ support group in somewhere like Manchester because of quite hostile asylum seekers making the atmosphere uncomfortable. Obviously that’s just hearsay, but this story lends weight to it.
We had 500 people arrive in our local area under the Goverment Afghan resettlement scheme.
The council tried to keep it quiet, but as part of the process, the parish and other councilors had to be told, and some of them put the info out on FB
The council quickly came back, telling us the people coming over had helped the UK army as translators and would bring their families.
A few months later, an FOI request was made, and it transpired that the council had got 60K from the government for „translation services,“ so it makes you wonder what happened to all the translators
If we’re going to rant about fixing this system, could we also close the tax loopholes and huge fraud at the other end of the scale? Both are huge problems but only one comes up with stunning regularity.
People’s concerns about immigration aren’t going away and are serious but they’re being used to distract from everything else going on. Like the £15bn lost to questionable COVID contracts, which is just the tip of the iceberg.
The government, or the Solicitors Regulation Authority, should be running undercover “mystery shopping” stings on asylum legal advisers.
Even a small number would scare out the bad actors. Right now, too many get away with it because the risk of being caught is basically zero.
I’m gonna say something that’ll get me heavily downvoted.
Even if the number of valid applications for persecuted LGBT people was in the minority (which there’s zero evidence it is), I still wouldn’t care if it’s saving genuinely at risk people.
This is a case of I’d rather let 10 guilty people walk free than condemn 1 innocent person for me.
Is this not perjury and grounds to be struck off from the legal profession?
[Legal advisor describing his client Suleiman al-Jihad in court](https://youtu.be/8o_0DCW2bVI)
Should just abolish the asylum system at this point.
The asylum system provides precisely zero benefit to the British public and comes at an enormous cost (both financially and otherwise) yet the multiple governments absolutely refuses to question its existence.