The Royal College of Psychiatry has just expressed concern that asylum seekers, who have endured physical and psychological harm, are being “retraumatised” by our immigration rules and that “a robust immigration policy can still be guided by human kindness”.
Millions of Britons believe these claimants are liars. In fact, between 2018-22, over 70 per cent were allowed to stay because their stories checked out.
Exiles and other migrants and their children are highly aspirational. Most will strive to better themselves and add value to society.
I am encouraging a Syrian doctor, who has legal status, to get in to a recently announced British Medical Association scheme to help refugee medics get in to the NHS. The number of vacancies in the care sector has fallen, because overseas carers are joining the workforce.
Great Britain would be a lesser place without super-migrants. Google’s AI genius Demis Hassabis, 48, born in London to a Singaporean mother and Greek father, has just won a joint Nobel Prize for chemistry. And award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen, son of a Grenadian mother and a Bajan father,........