Rejected petition Stop housing asylum seekers in hotels and stop benefits to economic migrants

We ask the government to stop housing asylum seekers in hotels and to stop paying benefits to suspected economic migrants.

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The refugee crisis is getting worse as more and more asylum seekers and economic migrants risk their lives to come to the UK. We ask the government to make coming to the UK less attractive by stopping benefits being payed to suspected economic migrants, we also ask that all asylum seekers be housed in basic accommodation instead of hotels as this costs the British tax payers millions of pounds per day.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Stop housing asylum seekers who entered the UK illegally in hotels: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628324

Asylum seekers – i.e. persons waiting for a decision on an asylum application – are not entitled to mainstream social security benefits.

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Date submitted 19 November 2022
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