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I would imagine she is just a failed asylum serker like the rest. This country has deported people to some very dodgy places. There are cases of Iraqis being sent back into what our country was laughingly calling a 'safe zone' at a time when sectarian violence in that area was terrible. Some of those people have subsequently vanished and their families are worried sick.
We treat asylum seekers very badly here.
The ones who are waiting for their cases to go through the system are not allowed to work. They instead have to rely on NASS support. Some of these are on a system which provides them with a) a place tp stay such as a flat, subject to constant and arbitrary change (e.g up-sticks, you're moving from Leeds to Scotland, and you have three days to get your stuff together), and a benefits payment set to about two-thrids what a standard benefit claimant may get. Some of them though are not given money at all. They are given a set of vouchers for use at participating stores: they have to be in their flat waiting for the guy to come around with the vouchers and sign for them. If he doesn't show up then you wait in all the next day too. Course since you have no money (not even for travel) and you've been moved five times in one year so don't have a local support network....you probably have fuck all to go out for anyway:P
Some of them just get thrown straight into a holding centre. Like the one this lady was at.
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