Asylum Seekers Coming To The Uk

[sp1814]

This report is a decade old, but it's useful as a springboard for a question I'm curious about:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/1523226.stm

Why are so many people convinced that asylum seekers come to the UK to bleed the benefits system?

Does the above study and the one below carry less weight than the stories carried by other media outlets?

http://www.unhcr.org.uk/about-us/the-uk-and-asylum.html

[FredPuli43]

In 1920 there were 957,782 live births, the record for the UK. The next boom was 1947, with over 850,000 and the next after that was in 1965 with a similar figure (had only a graph to give those last two so can't give exact numbers). The birth rate in the period post war to early 1950s was running at 16 per 1,000.

1920 and 1965 were marked peaks; the figures for years either side were much lower