Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Grumpy David wrote:Moggy wrote:Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
The Schengen agreement doesn't matter. The issue for a lot of people is that any person with EU citizenship can wander into the country. Most people aren't actually concerned about a Polish male who moves here to be a plumber but they are bothered about a Syrian male who claims asylum in Germany and then can move here.
Also the Irish border doesn't currently exist, it's an open border so we are reliant on Irish border control to do their investigation on any persons coming into their country.
No, people cannot just wander into the country, whether they are EU or not.
Syrian's claiming asylum in Germany cannot just move to Britain either.
Both of those are Leave lies.
I thought the asylum part was meant in a "after they acquire any form of EU nationality, they'll then leave that EU country and move to the UK"?
Yes that's exactly what i meant and it does happen because i've met a lot of people who have done this.
I'm currently working on a missing Syrian male who claimed asylum in Italy. He then moved to the UK and has now gone missing.
And people can effectively walk into our country as an EU citizen. Yes if they are known to our security services then they should be stopped at border control but if they are not then they can just wander in. No further checks will be carried up. If I want to just go to Spain i can, i don't need to tell them why i am there, i don't need to tell them when i am coming back to the UK.
If I live in Bristol and just want to live in Brighton then I can, no need to tell them why, no need for checks. Oh no!
A Syrian (and I don't know why they are the bogeymen) cannot just move from somewhere in the EU to the UK. They would have to claim citizenship of that other country first, which takes years.
No doubt some people do move from an EU country to the UK whole only being an asylum seeker, but that's a failing of the border guards (which May was in charge of since 2010) rather than the EU system.