... Britain will claim asylum, however this is not genuine. The main countries of origin of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants are those that are significantly less well off than the West, usually with a communist government and/or places where there is conflict. These are countries like Afganistan, Yugoslavia, Romania, China, Iraq and Iran. The ways in which illegal immigrants and asylum seekers arrive in this country vary enormously. In the news a couple of months ago, 58 chinese men were discovered dead in the back of a lorry where they had suffocated to death while being smuggled across the Channel. These were all illegal immigrants. Families of these paid a human trafficking gang "the Snakeheads" £14,000 to smuggle one individual from China to England. Only two men survived, and were found semi-comatose under a pile of corpses. Most illegal immigrants are smuggled into the country by gangs who hide them in ...

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