Britain’s half-baked approach of paying foreigners to leave

Steve Sailer points out that Britain already has a policy to pay unwanted foreigners to leave Britain. But there’s a catch—the people they’re paying are asylum applicants who legally don’t even belong in Britain; thus the scheme only gives foreigners the incentive to come to Britain, make a phony appliation for asylum, and then accept several thousand pounds to leave. Sailer’s plan, as he explains, is to pay legal residents who come from trouble-making backgrounds to go home, not to pay illegal aliens to go home! If you don’t shut down illegal immigration, you’re just encouraging more illegals to come.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 20, 2006 01:13 AM | Send