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I have a friend who had to flee Chile as a 4 year old with her mum. She is 35 now, and still remembers the stink of the cattle truck they had to live in whilst in hiding, and the panic she felt at running for their lives up a hill to escape from dictators who wanted to kill her and her family because they were the wrong colour.

Her dad was caught and tortured for many years (thankfully he is still alive and now free) and her childhood was ripped apart by this; she will be haunted forever by it.

Her children are at my school, they are 5 and 7, and she often cries thinking about the child she was back then, compared to the life her own kids have.

She is forever grateful to England for taking her in as a little child, and works hard, keeping her children fed and clothed, and paying all the taxes and stuff that we do.

I would never wish someone like her to be sent back or begrudge her the life she has here. You really have to look at individual cases and see that some people are here for the right reasons.

I know there are people who abuse the system, but surely the world is home to all of us, and if your life is at serious risk, you go where you can to be safe.

If my kids and my lives were in danger, I would eff off pretty quickly to somewhere safe.