mayfair
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Nope the so-called "poor" people who seek to migrate elsewhere illegally are known as illegal immigrants or economic refugees. They are not called asylum-seekers and their applications are processed as such. For instance, the hispanics in US without legal documents are called undocumented immigrants not asylum-seekers.Poor people seek asylum more than persecuted people to have a better life. Not much different.
This is a big difference. Genuine asylum-seekers are those who seeks shelter elsewhere because there is a real threat to their lives and to those of their family- an example would be a Hindu/Sikh family from Pakistan. Those who migrate for socio-economic reasons, try and pretend to be asylum seekers so that they can jump the queue into the destination country- this includes ALL wannabe immigrants from Shitistan and Bangladesh and also a quite a few migrants from India. The latter group migrates because they feel it's the quickest way to get rich beyond becoming a career criminal- not everyone has the stomach for that.
Most such people have no worthwhile skills to bring to the host country and hence will find it difficult to get in through the legal route. Their "poverty" too is a tool to somehow find a toehold in the country. Most of them pay exorbitant amounts to human traffickers to ferry them across the borders and oceans.
I do not buy this nonsense about the country of birth not having jobs for them. In addition to having no worthwhile skills, most of these folks find themselves doing demeaning jobs overseas (then only ones they can get because locals and legal immigrants will not and they have no papers that proper employers will ask for) and living in absolutely hellish accommodations and being exploited by everyone- from their "employer" to the local authorities. Women face the biggest brunt, because in addition to all this they face extreme sexual exploitation, men do as well, to an extent.
Of course the gulf migrants are a different story- they are genuine legal immigrants but low skilled and that leaves them to be exploited by their employers in countries where human rights are little more than a footnote in the law. It's these folks that deserve the sympathy, because they try and do things legally for the most part, but end up getting stuffed because of their own lack of education and the general apathy to their situation by their country of origin and country of destination.