And what has Commission for Racial Equality chief Trevor Phillips had to say about this? Er...could it be so far nothing?

Failed asylum seekers with small children (or ill, crippled, old, unable to work because barred by UK law from doing so) are already barred from housing and benefits, but there is a patchwork of obscure laws which keep them from destitution *if* they know about them, and the Government is busy trying to close all those loophles atm as well. lilithmagna spends every working day trying to stop them and usually succeeding, but it takes its toll on her personal life.