When Asylum Seekers Escape
I was listening to Five Live radio in the car this afternoon. They were reporting on how a total of twenty six asylum seekers had escaped from a detention centre in Oxfordshire.
I cannot imagine that the government centre puts much effort into keeping its occupants under lock and key, and the fact that so many have escaped from that centre in recent months is testament to that.
Five Live interviewed a local man who lived close by to the centre over the phone about how he had apprehended one of the escapees in his back garden. The man went on to tell them that this was the third time it had happened recently, and said he would not be surprised if it happened again.
The man then expressed the view that those in the Asylum centre should be sent back to where they came from if their application had been failed, and that in not doing so the Government was costing taxpayers in this country a large sum of money to pay for the Asylum seeker’s constant upkeep in a centre which they continued to trash.
Needless to say, he was cut off very quickly by the BBC after those honest comments.
