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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why do asylum seekers spend all their savings, risking their lives to board a dangerous sea vessel to flee the country instead of just travelling by a conventional means?

What's preventing them from heading to the airport and boarding a plane?
gpt
Usually because they
 would have 0 chance of obtaining an entry visa legally. Even if they manage to get an asylum seeker status, the process is very long and means living in a refuge camp or hostel for years while not allowed to work.

People who abuse the system in order to get into certain countries made it near impossible for genuine refugees to get help.