Government plans to tackle asylum seeker backlog slammed as 'waste of money'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :Other measures include a new "small boats operational command" which will bring together the military, civilian officials and the National Crime Agency to coordinate intelligence, interception, processing and enforcement, using drones for reconnaissance and surveillance.
49% : We could have used it temporarily to house people seeking asylum, we could have cleared the backlog.
46% : "He repeated far right tropes, there's an idea that if we make it a little bit easier for people seeking asylum to come here, that means that everybody in the world is going to come to the UK.
42% : In order to claim asylum, you simply have a well founded fear of persecution and many people from Albania have a well founded fear of persecution and they're absolutely entitled to seek asylum here.

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