Wrong
Not at all. We could put them in prison, or labour camps, or simply execute them. Or just let them starve or die of disease. Not very nice suggestions, admittedly, but they exist.

Why don't we do this? Because it's barbaric.

You answered your own question there. The reason we don't do those things to the British scroungers is because it would be inhumane.

But sending a person back to their HOME COUNTRY is not inhumane.
By the way - this thread was not specifically about asylum seekers - we're talking about economic migrants, who will NOT be tortured/killed back in their own country. The "asylum seeker" thread is another topic.

Again, if the problem is with the scrounging aspect and not the immigrant aspect then why not focus on how to identify and resolve that?

Yes, I agree that we should try to solve the scrounging problem. But there is no reason why we should have to play the mug and accept OTHER countries' scroungers, on top of our own! Let these people be a burden on the taxpayers of their HOME countries - and not on the taxpayers on THIS country.
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