24% of terror suspects are asylum seekers

THE government faces new embarrassment over Britain’s porous borders with the revelation that one in four terrorist suspects arrested in Britain is an asylum seeker.

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, there have been more than 1,100 arrests under antiterrorism legislation. While some of the most serious threats come from Al-Qaeda supporters born in the UK, there is new evidence of many suspects exploiting loopholes in the country’s immigration laws.

It was confirmed last week that Muktar Said Ibrahim, one of the bombers involved in the failed suicide attacks of July 21, 2005, was given a passport even though he had convictions for indecent assault and robbery. Gordon Brown has said an applicant in similar circumstances would not now be granted citizenship.

This is certainly a reason to keep our asylum system going seeing as a significant proportion of terror suspects are asylum seekers. I have something I have noticed that could mean it is even more. When their applications are accepted they are no longer called asylum seekers. I wonder what percentage of these terror suspects have been given indefinite leave to remain?

Surely this should be a reason to close our boarders and tell the asylum seekers that if they wanted asylum they should have went to the nearest safe country to their own and not passed sometimes over a dozen countries just to get to Britain.