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rakeruk t1_iw9iupc wrote

Illegal immigrant. He passed through a number of safe countries before he got to the UK. He could have claimed asylum in any one of them.

The likelihood is is that he paid a large sum of money to cross the English Channel to get to the UK. So he had a lot of money as it’s circa £15k for the crossing.

Let’s not paint them as asylum seekers. They’re not. Not at all.

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GastricallyStretched t1_iw9klt8 wrote

>He could have claimed asylum in any one of them.

He could have but he chose not to. You can't force anyone to apply for asylum, and there's no obligation to seek asylum in the "first safe country". The UN Refugee Convention makes no such requirement.

> Let's not paint them as asylum seekers.

He applied for asylum, and so he is by definition an asylum seeker until a decision is made about his application.

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