It don't think that can be reasonably said. It may or may not be true, depending on all sorts of factors and views of fairness ( for instance, does everybody born here get priority for employment, housing, health care etc over immigrants?).
Asylum seekers are, by law, not allowed to work. They are also not given any choice as to where they are placed for housing.
As you will imagine, the Home Office- who are responsible for housing asylum seekers- will choose areas with have low rental prices. And, as you will also imagine, the cheapest rental prices are not in the most salubrious towns of the UK.
The truth is that asylum seekers aren’t given priority for anything. People who believe otherwise simply do not know what they are talking about. The problem is that those who
do know that this isn’t true are more than happy to promote mistruths and half-truths for their own political agenda.
The housing of asylum seekers in hotels is horrible for everyone concerned. The Holiday Inn right in the centre of [popular large Northern city] houses them on the lower floors, and they have boarded off half the restaurant to accommodate them. They don’t have access to any of the facilities at that hotel, and were forced to use the back entrance. I stayed there once, paying a decent room rate, and have refused to go back because of how awful the situation was.
Of course the real beneficiaries of the situation are Serco, who are responsible for asylum seeker placements, but funnily enough the far-right don’t go and torch Rupert Soames’ house.
One thing I don’t think is helpful is the lack of an unequivocal early statement about the attacker NOT being a Muslim. I’m sure our police and security services will know everything about him by now.
Islam is practised by only about 2% of people in Rwanda. It’s highly unlikely this person is Muslim.
Until the judge named him, the government couldn’t say anything.