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3 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Seeing a lot of "at least they had accomodation. What about homeless veterans" arguments when discussing #NapierBarracks. UK spends £392million on immigration enforcement. Money better spent on helping the homeless than imprisoning asylum seekers. 1/
Camps such as Napier cost more to set up and operate than pretty much any other form of accommodation for asylum seekers, but make for a great PR stunt. Asylum seekers are denied right to work and provided with an allowance of £39.63 pw. They are denied council accommodation. 2/
You really want to get angry that people fleeing war and persecution are provided with assistance when homeless people here aren't, then get angry about the money wasted on their detention and denial of rights. 3/
This isn't an either/or issue. Under the government's new plans for immigration these costs will only go up. Money which could be used to benefit everyone being wasted on making out that a relatively small number of vulnerable refugees are the issue. 4/
And to next argument of "it was good enough for the armed forces". It wasn't. It was closed. It was then left to wrack and ruin to further deteriorate and then had hundreds of people crammed in it during a pandemic without proper facilities, including hot water to clean with. 5/
Again, perhaps instead of trying to blame asylum seekers for all the woes of the land you could actually campaign for something useful, like better conditions for service personnel. You know, just a thought. 6/
Final note for this thread. Company which Napier Barracks was in line to make £1billion off a ten year contract for it and another site.
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If your answer is we should just deport people, it costs roughly £13,354 per person to do so 7/ theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Based on immigration minister's figures, that means UK spent £9,347,800 this year alone on deportations. Not only do we have a duty under international law, and humanity, to help asylum seekers, but costs involved in not abiding by those duties mean less money to help others. 8/ Image

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Numbers of asylum seekers are down on previous years. They are at their lowest levels since 2014. That seems like kind of an important point to flag #r4today rather than making out that suddenly the Home Office is overwhelmed.
IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO CROSS THE CHANNEL OR SEEK ASYLUM. It is illegal to penalize an asylum seeker for their manner of entry. #r4today
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THREAD: With growing cross-party support to ensure that the #foreignaid budget is reinstated to 0.7% of GDP it's worth acknowledging that, particularly now, there are reasons people may oppose it, and equally important reasons for funding it. 1/
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Deeply depressing and, as Denmark is a signatory to UN refugee convention, highly illegal. This is a direct attack against refugee rights. Even more concerning though is it risks setting a precedent all too many countries will try and follow unless Denmark is held to account.
Got to say though, this is more than a little hypocritical on the part of the EU commission considering the externalisation policies of the EU and its track record of funding some fairly despicable regimes in order to avoid taking asylum seekers. Image
Asylum seekers have a legal right under international law to cross countries and enter by any means without penalty when seeking asylum. States also have responsibilities as to manner in which they are treated. It appears as though Denmark is absolving itself of those duties.
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3 Jun
Drops of 24% applications, 58% being processed, 93% resettlement options. 71% increase in asylum seekers waiting more than 6 months for an initial decision. Irresponsible reporting by @thetimes to not mention that when reporting on channel crossings in such an inflammatory manner Image
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31 May
At an average cost of £13,354 per deportation that roughly means that the UK government has spent £1,869,560 in a 10 day period or nearly £10million this year deporting people who will have already served their sentences. 1/
If the prison system is so unfit for purpose that the government honestly wants to argue that those who have been through it still pose such a fundamental risk to society that they should be deported then I would suggest that £10million would be better spent reforming it. 2/
And yes I know it will take more than £10million to reform a system which is, objectively speaking, fundamentally broken, but as deportations continue the money which could be used to contribute to that reform is just being wasted. 3/
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Controversial opinion, my wife and daughter, who is at uni, both definitely disagree with me, but this is a bad idea. Not only do costs of managing university campuses, pay wages etc still need to be met, and have had to be met during the pandemic....1/3 amp.theguardian.com/education/2021…
if you ever want students to be able to actually study in a bricks and mortar university again, but considering student loans already put off some students, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, due to the perception of repayment, increasing interest.... 2/3
rates would deter even more and reinforce that universities are the preserve of wealthy individuals. That the rates are only paid off later is irrelevant if it puts people off applying now and prevents universities being able to afford to maintain facilities for the future. 3/3
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