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Asylum seekers.
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People who flee their homes in the face of persecution, or threats to their lives, deserve compassion and support. Unfortunately for those reaching the UK they are all to often greeted with more hostility and treated like criminals. New legislation looks set to make things worse. Asylum seekers are all around us. They eat, breath and function just like us, so why should we kick them out? The dictionary defines "asylum" as a 'protection given by a government to someone who has fled from their own country for political reasons'. Therefore they are only in our country because they want to get away from abusement they suffered in their own country. It's not wrong then for someone to come in our country because they may get a better life, is it? However, survey's have shown that asylum seekers are treated as bad, if not worse in this country, than in...
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