Britons on Monday (Nov 17) expressed opposing views on immigration, as the government announced most sweeping overhaul of policy on asylum seekers in modern times.
The Labour government has been hardening its immigration policies, above all on illegal small-boat crossings from France, in efforts to stem the soaring popularity of the populist Reform UK party, which has driven the immigration agenda.
00:00When people see small boats arriving on our shores,
00:26they see a country that has lost control.
00:33I think asylum seekers come here because they know that they're going to get given accommodation,
00:41money, you know, a good life without having to work for it.
00:48But in that respect, if people want to come over here and work and provide and give in to the system,
00:53I'm all for that.
00:54I feel like immigration is something that is needed.
00:58You know, even my heritage, like my family is part of the Windrush generation,
01:02well, my grandparents and stuff, and they came here to help make, you know,
01:05they worked for the NHS, helped support so much people from this country
01:08and gave so much culture and public economy in many ways.
01:12So I feel like that's not something that we should be doing personally.
01:16I think they're rushing it. I think they're responding to a febrile public attitude rather than one that looks like they're in control of the situation.
01:27This looks like a knee jerk reaction. I can't say where the boundary is.
01:31But I think they look like they don't know either. And that's their job, not mine.
01:35You know, I work in the NHS and we've got good people who can't get jobs because of the laws.
01:41And then you've got people who just come in and sponge you. There's no consistency.
01:47So most people might think they're not doing enough to stop it. That's all it is.
01:53Yes, OK, I know it's tough when a lot of people come in, but we have so much.
01:58And some of these people are coming from places where they have nothing.
02:02And I think we should share.
02:06And yeah, I think to be very draconian and to sort of come down so hard and be so negative against these people is not right.
02:15I don't think there's such a thing as an illegal person.
02:18I think people can enter the country illegally, but there's a lot of refugees and people seeking asylum about.
02:24I don't think they should be demonised.
02:26And I think we should have more positive, positive stuff about immigration.
02:32And they've just been made the enemy, I think.
02:34I don't think it's too high. I think it's complicated. I think that it's like the knock on effects of Covid
02:42plus things like cutting foreign aid. I think you need like a multinational solution.
02:47And I think there's a lot of pandering to people like reform who would prefer to use immigrants as scapegoats.
02:52I think that obviously, for context, I'm a first gen immigrant.
02:59And I think that, you know, an immigrant does something bad and they are used as representatives for a population.
03:06And somebody who was born here and has paler skin does something bad and they're not.
03:11I would say, you know, chill about us and that we're focused.
03:14If you guys don't know.
03:15Kill yourself.
03:16I think it's everyone else.
03:17I think it's everybody else.
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