Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds

People apply after being here........ ban all the stupid people regardless of where they are born. Get out.

>In the year ending June 2025, 111,084 people claimed asylum in the UK, marking a 14% increase from the previous year and the highest level on record. You really buried the lead there. Higher than ever.

Exactly, and 100K are applications, not approvals. About half of applications are approved so the numbers are really not that high for a country of 70 million people

I can't see how. If anyone is here as a skilled worker or student and can't afford it, they either didn't bring enough funds and that's on them, or their job isn't paying enough and that job shouldn't be sponsoring people. The entire point of the system is either that you bring enough funds to support yourself or the job you take pays enough for you to follow the system. Not meeting that very fundamental requirement means they aren't legitimate.

Figuratively speaking. They need to be told to leave the country. No more endless appeals and time for people abusing the sytem.

Which foot would that be? Of being an immigrant? I am an immigrant, and I've been an immigrant before in other countries. I'm well aware of what it takes to be a useful immgirant. This has nothing to do with existing. This is about following the laws of the country you go to. If you're not a legitimate refugee, they don't owe you any allowances.

>The system is working exactly as it is supposed to I don't think it is, and I also don't think a lot of people in power want it to either. Let's look at the recent mess with the illegal deliveroo drivers. This was the easiest problem in the world to solve, made overly complex by people who wanted to drag it out and a public who didn't remotely understand. All these calls to have a new law holding the companies accountable was pointless. There already existed a mechanism to shut it down. Under UK law that kind of an employment contract legally allowed the contractor the right to substitute someone. However, it was their legal responsibility to verify that person's right to work. This type of employment contract has far wider reach than simply gig food delivery. It applies to call kinds of industries. There is no mystery over how right to work in the UK functions. Anyone with a legitimate visa can generate a share code in minutes to prove their right to work. The person responsible for employing the illegal worker was the account holder. I didn't once hear a single story about holding those account holders responsible. Everyone screaming about deliveroo, just eats, etc who were, legally speaking, not actually responsible for it. At any point if someone just ordered a few deliveroo orders, made the people who turned up show their share code, and if anyone failed, they turned around and started issuing max fines to the account holders (£50-60k) the illegal work would stop overnight, if not within a couple of days. No one is risking £50 rental fee for a month for a £50k fine. Instead they faffed about trying to make up a new law to hold these companies responsible for something that they weren't legally responsible for at the time. And they shouldn't be. It really doesn't matter that they're big companies. What matters is that there was already two legally responsible parties, and for some reason we had to go around and make some third party responsible and ignore the responsibility of the two parties already involved. Now we have a situation where migrants are paying for legal advisers and lawyers to lie or help them make up stories to get visas or asylum. The response here: 'Are the migrants actually at fault?' Yes. The answer is yes. They are absolutely 100% at fault. Both at fault for abusing the system and for making the entire immigration situation worse for the rest of us. Let's be honest, if the country wasn't being flooded with fake asylum seekers and low-skilled workers immigration probably would not have become an issue at all in the recent years. The rest of us could have just gotten on with our lives having been brought her to fill professional roles local companies struggled with. Instead our lives have all been turned upside down because of people like this. By people like this, I'm referring both to the immigrants abusing the system and those helping them do it. If people are paying them to make up stories about domestic abuse, or being gay, they're doing that because they don't have legitimate claims they can prove. if the system were working as intended, these advisors and lawyers would find themselves in jail, fined and their businesses shut down, and the immgirants found to have used their services to make up claims will be on the first bus/boat/plane out of here with no chance for any appeal.

Are you arguing they are justified in lying about their circumstances, making things more difficult for legitimate victims in the process? Many of these fabricated claims come from people who are in the UK on student, tourist visas etc. Simply being granted one of these visas indicates they already have quite a privileged position in their home country.

In all of your scenarios it's still the person who did the shootings fault that they shot someone.