Question Time audience member tears into MPs over ‘disgusting dehumanisation’ of immigrants

Question Time audience member tears into MPs over 'disgusting dehumanisation' of immigrantsSource: BBC

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00:00I find it quite disgusting how we're talking about human beings who are

00:04genuinely, and it's not illegal to claim asylum in a foreign country, okay, like

00:10saying they're illegal immigrants is not. They're asylum seekers and refugees.

00:14Illegal immigrants tend to be people who come here legally and overstay a visa or

00:19they overstay an application. That's the majority of illegal immigrants that are

00:23within this country. They're not people that are fleeing war and we know that

00:27countries that are more closer to the Middle East tend to take on a lot more

00:30refugees than we ever do, right, and it's the element of calling these people

00:37invaders or calling, dehumanizing them so that we can point a finger at them and

00:42say you're the reason that we've got a houseage shortage, but we have only built

00:47250,000 council houses since Thatcher came into power, but before that we built

00:52five million. That's a fact. So I don't understand why you always like to, people

00:57like to claim that like immigrants are the problem when it's recent successive

01:03governments that have always been the problem.