Half A Million More Foreign-born Arrive In Past Decade Than Previous Ten Years
Despite promising cuts in immigration, the government has overseen even higher levels than under Tony Blair or Gordon Brown during their time in office. New datafrom the 2021 Census (carried out during March of last year) shows that the number of non-UK born people who arrived in the past decade was half a million more […]
Asylum Seeker Hotel Costs In Context
Over the past few decades, the numbers relating to government spending only seem to rise and rise. This can be quite de-sensitising. Eventually, an exasperated taxpayer might even be forgiven for caring little for ‘just’ another £5.6 million being spent by a government department with a forgettable name. Yet that £5.6 million, which is what […]
What Now For Border Control?
An electoral reckoning is nigh… So what now for immigration and border control? Farce? Chaos? Shambles? All of that, and more. To say that what we have witnessed in our politics over the past 48 hours has been jaw-dropping is to understate the goings-on. The fuse was lit for the denouement of this chapter of […]
We’ve Got Safe Routes A Plenty…
Our new research debunks bogus claims ‘No safe routes’ claim DEBUNKED!! You will no doubt have heard the bogus claim—echoed by none other than French President Emmanuel Macron—that Britain has ‘no safe routes’ for refugees fleeing to the UK from persecution and war. The implication being, of course, that the only reason thousands every month […]
Direct refugee immigration to the UK
1. Around a third of a million refugees have come to the UK using 13 different refugee routes since 2005, including around 240,000 people in just the past year. 2. In addition, more than 60,000 refugee family members of refugees have come over during the period 2010-2022, bringing the total arriving via 13 routes to […]
Is This The Home Secretary We Always Wanted?
We welcome Mrs Braverman’s plans A Braverman Bravura Could it be that we finally have a Home Secretary that actually means business on immigration? In her speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Suella Braverman made the sort of clear and unequivocal commitment to reducing immigration that we have been urging on Home Secretaries for years. Mrs Braverman made clear […]
Another Border Control Ruse…
We must end the mass immigration addiction SACRIFICING COHESION FOR THE DEMANDS OF BIG BUSINESS New government, same old immigration ruse. We learned over the weekend that the Prime Minister wants use immigration as a means of boosting the economy. Her liberal economic instincts have prompted her into going along with calls from big business and state bodies […]
It’s Costing You Billions
Asylum hotel bills are rocketing Illegal immigration matters. Ultimately, it is the UK taxpayer who has to foot the bill for accommodation (including hotel) costs for more than 25,000 asylum claimants. Our analysis of new data from the Home Office suggests a cost of just under £1.3 billion per year (see our full research paper here and our […]
Cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels
Summary 1. Tens of thousands of asylum claimants are staying in approximately 200 hotels, alongside an unknown number in hostels. With asylum-related hotel provision rising amidst a mounting case backlog and record dinghy crossings, the cost of such hotel accommodation to taxpayers is nearly £1.3 billion per year – over a billion more than the forecast of […]
Open-door Immigration
This is not what you voted for… BRITAIN NOW HAS OPEN-DOOR IMMIGRATION We were told we would be ‘taking back control’; what a whopper that turned out to be. While members of Boris Johnson’s government and Mr Johnson himself have repeatedly boasted of having taken back control of our borders and immigration, we at Migration […]