I am really amused how Duncan Hunt, of the Sussex Immigrant Helpline, gives the game away (Opinion, February 2).

Asylum seekers don't come here to escape dictatorships or deadly persecution - oh no, they come, as he said, "...because they have family and friends in the area".

Well, now we know! Let them all come, we have plently of room for the immigrants who want to be with their families and friends. The more the better.

-Kenneth Crane, Marine Parade, Brighton