... seekers family gets a year in handouts (and it's all tax free!)". The Newspaper has written £16000 in this bold font to represent it as a huge amount; the £16000 takes up half the page and is there to cast the reader's eye indicating what a significant amount of money it is. The headline also uses the word "handout", which hints that they are not working for their money and just getting it given to them. They could have easily replaced this term with "benefits" instead of the word "handout" but deliberately wrote this to represent them as unfair people who are out to get whatever they can. The writer also uses "average" to stress that asylum could be earning more than this significant figure. It then gives the higher possibility over the average to make asylum seem money grabbing. At the end of the headline it writes "(and its ...

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