a depressing ps to today

I have just had a chat with my asylum seeking friend, she has just completed a two week placement in an old people's day centre as part of her college course. More than ever this is want she wants to do. Why, given the lack of people who seem to want to work with old people and offer them the dignity that she does, why, given all she has been through and all she has to offer can she not be given the right to stay here?