Stuck in nowhere *

Summary:

In the UK there are tens-of-thousands of asylum seekers who had to flee their own country, but end up with nothing because their request has been denied. Therefore they do not have a house nor a job in England, but they cannot go home, because it is not safe. But the UK home office says it is safe and that the failed asylum seekers have no right to remain in the UK and no need for protection. Therefore these people are in limbo and they do not even have five dollars a day to spend. The Glasgow council wants to treat the people with compassion but the UK government won’t let them do that and is standing in their way.

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Own opinion:

I really feel for these people. I know what it feels like to leave your hearth and home for a year and I did it for fun. These people are forced to, because otherwise they could be imprisoned or even killed. So they give up everything, leaving everything behind, hoping for a better life and then ‘we’ in the Western world actually just say they are overreacting and send them back. If they had a good life there, they would not just leave and live in poverty here. But I do believe it is hard as well to filter out who is honest and who is not.

Words: 107

Source:

(2 May 2013). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1xaaFemqgM. Retrieved from http://rt.com/on-air/