Say it loud - refugees are welcome here!

THERE is something worse than despicable about people who want to assault and abuse refugees.

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Yet there they are, forming-up to rage in protest outside squalid buildings, some of them trying to burn them down with the people trapped inside.

These buildings, hardly passing as “hotels” - never improved, never refurbished, never invested in - now being used as cheap accommodation and a fast-buck for the tax-cash grabbing owners, cramming-in people who have risked their lives to get here.

These people are refugees - between 60 and 80% of people in those small boats are granted asylum - they are refugees as a class. They don’t get given jobs here - they cannot work until their applications are processed and successful. They come here to contribute to the economy, have a life and pay taxes.

Asylum is a human need and a human right. When you're being attacked by military or armed gangs, your family raped and killed, your homes and lands destroyed either by war or extreme weather, you should be helped.