Recently in the United Kingdom, an asylum claimant named Abdul Ezedi threw a corrosive substance over a woman, leaving her with life-changing injuries. Ezedi, who had arrived illegally in the back of a lorry in 2016, had been denied asylum twice. In 2018, he was given only a suspended sentence after being convicted of sexual assault. Finally, in 2020 he was granted asylum to protect him from prosecution after he claimed to have converted to Christianity.How was a man who had been convicted of sexual assault and denied asylum twice able to remain in the UK?For over a year, Ezedi had been provided food and housing by the Action Foundation, a “charitable” organization for refugees and asylum seekers who have been refused asylum and denied access to government support. Many such organizations
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