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She was able to deceive the system so easily, and then more or less gets let off, what lesson is that sending to the rest of these so called 'assylum' seekers in the EU?
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Second, as one illustration: someone seeking political assylum and taking sanctuary in a church in Arizona could be arrested for trespassing under their new law.
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London has a large Pakistani community, and the U.K. has frequently been the destination for Pakistanis seeking political assylum.
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I used to rapidly scan the week's R4 drama and, picking carefully between the storylines "Umjit is a single mother assylum seeker torn between two cultures on a housing estate in...." occasionally found the odd play worth listening to.
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"Umjit is a single mother assylum seeker torn between two cultures on a housing estate in...."
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I tryed tu visit himz in teh assylum as offin as ai cud, butt! affur mistaekinlee puttin awn tu mush fais powdir wif red lipstik wen ai visited himz wuns, adn den bein in teh hospitlol bowt siks monfs foar rekonstruktif surgiree, wii deesided tu ravvur emayo adn chat online.
Can’t sleep… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Personally I say open the borders, and give more people assylum.
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There is, of course to be made for a rule against insincere converstions made for the purpose of obtaining assylum, even if such a conversion would subject the individual to persecution.
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In regards to Israel soaking in Jewish refugees, this is not offering assylum this is population boosting. but then again the real Jewish refugees were the ones that were fleeing european mass genocides.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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It was only the other nuts in the assylum like the minnow minions at (U) sp that paid any attention to that windmill tilter.
Sound Politics: Gossett elected King County Council Chairman 2006
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