[point78]

Make the immigrants/refugees actually work when they get here.

Something like up to 80% are on welfare and public housing etc.

You don't work or go to school, you go back.

[pjc50]

Asylum seekers are deliberately prevented from working in the UK, it's illegal for them to do so. They are paid £37.75 a week to live on. This is not a lot.

[simonsarris]

> They are paid £37.75 a week to live on. This is not a lot.

Shifting discussion from the cost of refugees to talking about only the food cost, or whatever it is that £37.75 a week amounts to, seems like a deliberate dodge. I'd be pretty insulted if I was from the UK. Obviously that's not a lot of money because obviously its not the whole picture.

What they are paid, or that they are paid at all, is never ever a relevant £ figure in these discussions unless its introduced to make it sound artificially small. When discussing cost, nothing but the total £ cost per refugee matters.

[pjc50]

Admittedly that excludes housing benefit, but again, when they are forbidden from working, where and how are they supposed to live?

The stipend is for food and all other living expenses - clothes, heating etc.

[lawlessone]

pretty much all of them want to work too. Many countries don't allow that though.