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 […]
Elites Must Make A Choice…
Reduce ALL immigration or lose power Message to our next PM, reduce immigration or lose power Once again, the headlines this week have been filled with the ever-worsening scandal that is the crisis on the English Channel. We have already reached well over 4,000 crossings for August alone – the highest monthly total this year […]
You Are Picking Up The Tab…
Border failures are costing billions Immigration is out of control and you’re paying for it You will have no doubt seen the headlines about the daily record for illegal Channel crossings being smashed this week, with a new high of 1,295 people coming in small boats on Monday alone. There were hundreds more as the week went […]
Our Borders Are Shot To Pieces
The Channel crisis is a national disgrace How much more abuse and exploitation of our laws can we take? You will no doubt have noted the record numbers who crossed the Channel illegally again this week. On Monday alone nearly 700 (that we are aware of) reached Britain on small boats and July saw a record month […]
20 Years And Still Fighting..
The battle for border control continues We won’t let elites dodge the mass immigration crisis As the followers of Migration Watch know, we have been campaigning for effective border control and sustainable immigration levels for over twenty years. Our reputation, built on rigorous research, careful analysis of migration trends and accurate projections, is unique. We have […]
The Abuse Of Modern Slavery Laws By Asylum Seekers
Key points 1. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 was passed in order to combat modern slavery in the United Kingdom. Since 2018, 15,977 UK nationals (3,195 per year on average) have been referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) under modern slavery laws and given support where appropriate. In addition to those UK nationals, 37,526 […]
Irregular Immigration Behind The Broken Asylum System
The latest irregular migration statistics released on 25th August for the year ending June 2022 revealed the extent to which irregular (what used to be termed illegal) migration, feeds the broken asylum system, since nearly all those entering this way claim asylum. Leading the clear abuse are those crossing the English Channel illegally via small boats or by […]
Number Of People Per Illegal Boat Has Shot Up Five-fold Over Past Five Years
As the government has prevaricated and revealed its impotence on tackling boat arrivals, more than 2,500 boats have breached our borders. And new figures reveal that the average number of people per boat has risen five-fold since 2018, from an average of 7 people per boat in 2018 to just under 40 in 2022 so far. Figure […]