This morning, the BBC of all places, is reporting it has unearthed a ‘shadow industry of law firms and advisers’ which is ‘charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay’ in order to be granted asylum status. In what is just ‘the first part of a major undercover investigation’, the national broadcaster has revealed an organised system in which migrants whose visas are expiring are advised to claim asylum on the basis of fake claims that they are gay. 

The problem with granting asylum on the basis of sexuality, or religion, or politics is that it’s inherently impossible to disprove

The problem with granting asylum on the basis of sexuality, or religion, or politics is that it’s inherently impossible to disprove

One law firm charged up to £7,000 for a fake claim, and promised that the chances of refusal were ‘very low’, and one immigration adviser ‘boasted that she had spent more than 17 years’ putting together fake asylum claims, and ‘said she could even arrange for someone to pretend they’d had a gay sexual relationship with a client.’

These are sophisticated operations. Asylum seekers visit GPs ‘pretending to be depressed in order to get medical........

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