Aaaaah don't get me started on this, the system is ridiculous!! We're in the process of trying to get a marriage visa for my husband (he's foreign, not a criminal though! haha) so he can live with me in England, and the amount of checks, paperworks, the cost of it.. he'll have to take an English test too, show his bank accounts to prove he'll have enough money to live there, as we won't be able to claim benefits AT ALL while we're there (fair enough). But if he came over illegally, he'd have a good chance of getting benefits, a house?? What part of this makes sense?? How can it be harder for honest, hardworking people, already married to UK citizens, to apply??
aaaaand breathe.
Other side of the story though, I worked for a while with asylum seekers and their stories were more than heartbreaking, so I find it difficult to judge anyone who's trying to escape what they were escaping, and live knowing their families were still in danger. I cried so much in that job.
aaaand breathe again.
However, that tw*t in the story above..I have no words. Mucking ridiculous.
Anyone else noticed how the crime rates have risen in relation to letting migrants in? We let them into OUR country, give them OUR money and OUR houses and how do they thank us? They murder innocent people, they basically take us all for a free ride. I'm not saying a british person is incapable of commiting a crime but I think we should shut the border gates and get a tougher system in like Australia. If they come in and contribute to our society and put in what they have been give then that is fair play (Like Australia, you can only get in if you have a certain number of points and will be working and helpling their economy) 
