RE Elspeth Wollen's letter on refugees and asylum seekers (EA, May 15).
Where she gets her two per cent of refugees from I don't know, but F Avenell and R W Selway who she criticises, were not talking about genuine refugees, they were talking about illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers.
Even the government have admitted that immigration is out of control and have no idea how many are illegally here, many of them who could be terrorists.
She dismisses two per cent as not being many, but two per cent of hundreds of thousands is a lot for this small country. Also, E Wollen why is it that asylum seekers are predominantly able bodied young men between 16 and 35 and can she answer R J Selway's question, which A Lubin won't or can't answer why they travel all across Europe to England, instead of stopping in the first safe country reached, if as in her own words they are living 30 per cent below the poverty line here?
A BURN
Liden
Swindon
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