The asylum reality Left cannot accept

COULD there be a more potent demonstration of how our asylum vetting process has become little more than a global farce than the case of people trafficker Ahmed Ebid, who was jailed last week for 25 years.

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Born in Egypt, this vile chancer was tempted into a life of serious crime and actually served time in Italy for six years after being caught trying to smuggle a tonne of cannabis into the country.

Disturbingly, upon making the illegal crossing into the UK this conviction did not stop him being instantly placed on the benefits bandwagon. The next time you hear the bleeding heart lawyers and campaigners say asylum seekers have no immediate access to welfare payments in this country, do remember this story concerning evil 42-year-old Ebid.

How was his criminal past not discovered? What are the laughable supposed "checks" we run on these people? Why were we saddled with the bill of paying for this lawless gangster?