Britain is being roiled by protests against its government’s feckless immigration policies. Enormous numbers of “asylum seekers” have been welcomed into that country, fed and housed. A disproportionate number of those migrants are single men, and many native Britons understandably see their presence as an invasion that is being abetted by their own government. The commission of many sex crimes by these migrants has been the chief source of unrest.
The flashpoint for the current protests has been Epping, where an asylum seeker who was staying at government expense at a local hotel was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and sexually harassing other women. A local judge issued an order requiring the government to clear asylum seekers out of that hotel. That order is now on appeal, and the Labour government is trying to keep the migrants in place.
The London Times reports:
The Home Office and the owners of the Bell, which houses 138 single male asylum seekers…
This reflects the demographics of the migrant invasion.
…appealed on Thursday against the injunction, which is due to come into force on September 12.
Edward Brown KC, representing the Home Office, told the court that “the relevant public interests in play are not equal”, and the upholding of planning controls was “fundamentally different” from the home secretary’s duty under the European Convention on Human Rights.
He said there was “national interest in ensuring vulnerable individuals, namely asylum seekers are accommodated” and hotels were part of “critical national infrastructure”. The injunction, he added, risked “acting as an impetus for further protests, some of which may be disorderly, around other asylum accommodation”.
He is right about that. All across England, protesters are demanding that illegal migrants be removed from their communities.
The Labour government argues that crimes committed by migrants housed in hotels are irrelevant:
The Home Office claims that allegations of serious criminal wrongdoing against three asylum seekers housed at the Bell do not justify its closure.
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Claims that asylum seekers are more likely to commit violent crime were not appropriately considered by a judge, added Brown. “In a free society … we are all obliged to put up with a degree of perceived nuisance,” he said.
There you have it: young girls being raped and molested by non-Britons is just a “perceived nuisance” that they will have to put up with. A British friend tells me that his country’s government really does hate its own people. It is hard to come up with a better explanation for its callous attitude toward them.
