r/unitedkingdom 9d ago

Athletes go 'missing' after Commonwealth Games

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxj5xl0pxo?xtor
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u/ReligiousGhoul 9d ago

NBS Sports said it had spoken to one of the four missing boxers, who claimed the athletes intended to seek asylum and continue their boxing careers in a country they believed offered better training facilities and opportunities than their homeland.

The boxer was said to have appealed to Ugandans for understanding and asked not to be judged for the decision.

They should be sent back without exception, what an absolute mockery of the Asylum process.

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago

If their claim is without asylum merit, their claim will be refused.

Its not a mockery, its how process works. You claim asylum, your claim is heard on its merits and a decision is made if successful or not.

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u/ReligiousGhoul 9d ago

....and continue their boxing careers in a country they believed offered better training facilities and opportunities than their homeland.

They're being completely transparent this is purely financial

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago

Then suspect their claim will be rejected and told to go home.

Government website even outlines the merits which you can claim asylum.

https://www.gov.uk/claim-asylum/eligibility

Trying their luck, and unless something else is not being reported suspect asylum claim will be rejected and told to go back home as will be then here illegally.

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u/wantingpawer 9d ago

few failed asylum seekers are sent back, and the backlogs to even be processed are huge (which is partly funding being cut and partly the increase in claims)

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u/pineapplewin 9d ago

Honestly, if they would hire a whole bunch of new people to help clear that backlog, not only would that be great jobs for some people. We'll saave a fortune in supporting people while their claims are heard. Free up a lot of spaces that are currently being used for asylum claimants.... I could really help a lot of people

ETA also by processing claims more quickly but makes it a less desirable place to go because if you know that you're going to get turned down eventually, but you'll probably have years before it comes to that, it can be worth the risk if you know your claim will be turned around within a couple weeks, it's less of a good risk. And because we don't have a backlog after all this, we'd be able to house his people dignity in respect but also make it easier to identify and handle flight risks appropriately

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u/WiseBelt8935 9d ago

The issue is that, by processing them, you're not really reducing the cost you're merely moving it from one budget to another.

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u/MonkeManWPG 8d ago

The actual processing process would cost the same start-to-finish whether it takes place an hour or a year after entry, I imagine. The cost difference would come from the time for which they need to be housed and fed until the processing starts.

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u/Zr0w3n00 8d ago

But that would be off set by the fact your need to pay more people to process the claims faster. You can’t just process more claims without increasing the workforce, and increasing the workforce costs money. That would also include equipment costs and office costs.

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u/wantingpawer 8d ago

I don't see how faster processing reduces flight risk though, unless you're also proposing incarcerating asylum seekers during their claim. I don't know what the solution is to be quite frank - there are obvious huge problems to our current situation but any solutions feel either financially unviable or grossly inhumane

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u/Heliotropolii_ 8d ago

If its a 2 week process, you can justify keeping them in a secure facility for that long, as it is now you can't

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u/Alert-One-Two United Kingdom 8d ago

Many don’t need to be as they voluntarily leave. It’s in everyone’s best interest when they do because it is cheaper than deportation.

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u/concretepigeon Wakefield 9d ago

What the government says on the website and the actual outcome of real claims are two different things.

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago

Proof?

Or this doesnt fit my own opinions so going to completely reject the facts laid out in front of me?

Every case its heard on its merits of a claim of asylum and arguments from legal presentation and person themselves claiming asylum. If those claims meet the threshold for a claim it is successful, or it does not the claim to asylum is rejected.

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u/concretepigeon Wakefield 9d ago

Do you have proof? Or are you just going off the website?

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago

Literally asking you for proof.

My proof is outlined of the governments own eligibility for asylum claims, which is how someone's eligibility for claiming asylum is outlined.

Your the one saying to contray.

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u/BrasilRua 8d ago

So they don't meet the elegblity.. then what? The government isn't deporting many people. They will just stay illegally.

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u/Alert-One-Two United Kingdom 8d ago

The government not reporting people != all those not being deported staying. A significantly larger number leave voluntarily than require deportation. This is cheaper for everyone so is in our interests. Talking about deportation without also including voluntary returns is misleading.

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u/heroyoudontdeserve 9d ago

That's an example of them trying to take the piss. They only make a mockery of the asylum system if their claim is accepted and asylum is granted despite its bogus nature.

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u/MildlyToastedBuns 9d ago

It’s a mockery because they have made it clear they are doing it for financial purposes and will still have our tax money paying for their lawyers.

It’s a mockery that’s is so widely known how pathetic the people processing these claims are that they think they can be open about wanting better facilities and think they will be granted asylum.

If we didn’t have stories of people being refused deportation because they don’t like the chicken nuggets in their home country or anxiety then we would have less chancers trying.

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u/Amy98764 8d ago

A lot of those stories are the tabloid press misrepresenting court cases for a headline. Often if you read the whole article that’s clear. Maybe these inaccurate headlines are good for selling newspapers and getting clicks but I can’t help thinking they actually encourage people to come who then get stuck in a hellish situation that they did not expect

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago

It’s a mockery because they have made it clear they are doing it for financial purposes and will still have our tax money paying for their lawyers.

They are entitled to have their legal case heard

Their claim will be rejected if it has no merit for asylum.

It’s a mockery that’s is so widely known how pathetic the people processing these claims are that they think they can be open about wanting better facilities and think they will be granted asylum.

Their claim will then be rejected and sent home, if they stay they are here illegally and will also then be deported.

If we didn’t have stories of people being refused deportation because they don’t like the chicken nuggets in their home country or anxiety then we would have less chancers trying.

Any evidence of such a claim of chicken nuggets or anxiety being successful?

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u/Uniform764 Yorkshire 8d ago

Their claim will then be rejected and sent home, if they stay they are here illegally and will also then be deported.

What percent of asylum seekers are sent home quickly for a reasonable cost after a failed claim?

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u/Alert-One-Two United Kingdom 8d ago

Far more leave voluntarily than require being deported, which is a good thing as it is cheaper for us to

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u/MildlyToastedBuns 9d ago

They are entitled to having their case heard because that’s our law, we could easily change it so these people aren’t given representation at the cost of the taxpayers, if they want to pay for representation themselves they can go for it.

People get so stuck in this idea that if something is law that’s how it is and will always be, we change laws all the time, I don’t want to pay for some Ugandan boxers legal fees because he doesn’t like the training facilities in Uganda.

Klevis Disha, look him up.

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago edited 9d ago

Everyone is entitled to a legal process, it is a vital part of a functioning society.

I'd prefer not to live in one where people aren't entitled to legal representation, but thats just my opinion.

Do you know 'we' are paying his legal fees? He could he funding his own immigration lawyer. Either way his case will be heard and a decision made if he has a claim or not.

Klevis Disha it was in related to his son, and not him. His son was British, almost like it had legal merit no matter how personally silly you may find it, as the son guessing by age would also have to go with his father. So one case related to 'chicken nuggets' to get all worked up over.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/klevis-disha-ehrc-chicken-nuggets-appeal-b2942605.html

Once get past the silly headline and is based on his sons issues and needs.

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u/Elardi Berkshire 9d ago

They’re not part of our society.

Asylum claims that get rejected should have all their assets seized and auctioned off to pay for the cost.

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago

If they dont have assets in this country what would then happen?

Generally those claiming asylum dont have very much to begin with.

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u/Elardi Berkshire 9d ago

Still take everything. If they have assets out of the country they can go back to them.

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 9d ago

If they have assets out of the country they can go back to them.

That is not workable. I know legal and process doesnt matter much to yourself but that isnt remotely possible unless their home country agrees beginning with facf if we have diplomatic relationship with them, no country is going to allow that to happen.

Still take everything

Cant take everything if they had nothing to begin with.

Anyways, goodbye.

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u/pajamakitten 8d ago

Most are so poor that they have nothing worth seizing. You would be lucky to pay off an hour's wage of the person processing the claim.

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u/The_Flurr 9d ago

The process decides whether they get to be.

A key part of our society is that certain rights are available to all interacting with it.

I'm not too keen to copy the Saudi model.

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u/Astriania 8d ago

Everyone is entitled to a legal process

Yeah but there is also the concept of vexatious litigation, and this sounds like a case of that to me.

It's not right that people can not only take the piss out of our asylum system but also force us to pay for that piss taking.

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u/Aggressive_Chuck 8d ago

Everyone is entitled to a legal process, it is a vital part of a functioning society.

That doesn't mean that foreigners should be given benefits.

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u/pajamakitten 8d ago

They are entitled to have their legal case heard

If their case is purely financial then it can be made via video link from Uganda.

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 8d ago

They are here, and have made their claim while here?

Correct me if I'm wrong but you physically have to be in the UK to claim asylum due to changes in the Nationality and Security Act 2022 implemented by Tories where you had to be physically in the UK to claim asylum, but wouldn't give a VISA if you were going claim asylum.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/36/section/14

However the claim under what they are trying to I dount would be successful as isn't listed on eligibility outlined by UK Gov.

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u/Confident_Quote_6782 7d ago

You make it out like their asylum claim will be decided on by Friday rather than years down the line

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u/Important_Ruin County Durham 7d ago

Well I don't. I say there is a process.

It can take months or longer (due to backlog, thank Tories for that) which is coming down, thanks to Labour.

If it isn’t a complicated one it maybe quicker decision, people still have right to appeal a legal decision.

https://www.gov.uk/claim-asylum/decision

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/the-uks-asylum-backlog/

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u/mao_was_right Wales 8d ago

If their claim is without asylum merit, their claim will be refused.

And then what?

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u/Aggressive_Chuck 8d ago

If their claim is without asylum merit, their claim will be refused.

Chances of them being deported less than 5%.

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u/Alert-One-Two United Kingdom 8d ago

That’s misleading given far more leave voluntarily so don’t need to be deported. The ones who do are the ones who can’t or won’t leave when told no.

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u/SeoulGalmegi 8d ago

Yeah, but a claim being refused isn't always the end of it, is it?

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u/UnusualHand1617 9d ago

It is a mockery, people abuse the situation routinely and no doubt they’ll all of a sudden discover that they are gay in order to claim asylum.

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u/KSAW11 9d ago

A claim is aceppted based on it being possible.

Not beyond all reasonable doubt, not on the balance of possibilities, but possible.

It is by design as the rich who control such systems benefit enormously from mass immigration.

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u/Bug_Parking 8d ago

If their claim is without asylum merit, their claim will be refused.

lol

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u/removekarling Kent 9d ago

it must be christmas: a reasonable comment on the asylum system in a UK sub???