Our Comment On Government’s Asylum Proposals
Commenting Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “These proposals are welcome. They are, rightly, designed to remove those who make false claims and to deter “asylum shoppers” who come here from countries where they are already safe. The asylum system has come very close to collapse because of high numbers and increasing abuse. […]
An Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants Would Risk Lives
Summary 1. The PM said of his asylum policy on 18 March 2021: “The objective here is to save life.” That same day he spoke in favour of his long-standing proposal for an amnesty for long-term illegal immigrants. If the aim is to save life, why would you offer an amnesty that would only spur more people […]
What Might Be In The Government’s Plan To Tackle Abusive Legal Claims By Activist Lawyers?
The Home Office is on the verge of releasing its plan to reform asylum rules to deter vexatious legal claims by activist lawyers and those with no right to be in the UK who are attempting to stave off their removal. The public has learned about these plans in nuggets released to the press in […]
New Statistics Point To Rising Asylum Fraud
New analysis of official statistics released by the Home Officepoints to increasing abuse of our asylum system by those who have broken the rules or by non-UK born criminals attempting to stave off deportation. The proportion of people claiming asylum in detention rose from less than a third (32%) to almost half (47%) – 2017-19. Even though more […]
How Much Do British Citizens Really Care About Mass Immigration?
Many commentators and policy-makers are using the anomaly of the Covid-19 pandemic and the relief of finally seeing Brexit happen to claim that Britain is now ready for a liberalisation of immigration policy. International travel is down, and many people put economic uncertainty ahead of worries about border control. However, this must not be misrepresented […]
New Evidence Of Our Failing Asylum System Which Costs You £1bn Per Year
New Home Office statisticsprovide even more cause for thinking that the UK’s asylum system is rapidly becoming unfit for purpose. The number of cases waiting for over a year to be processed has risen to nearly 26,000 out of just under 52,000 claims, and now account for half of all applications awaiting an initial decision. Indeed, […]
Save Our Green Space By Restoring Sense To Immigration Policy
Figures released by the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Governmentshow that we have lost nearly 12 square miles of supposedly protected green space per year since 2015 because of the rampant over-development that is partially linked to the failure to control immigration. The total land area in the green belt which was set aside for development by councils […]
Zero Removals Of Illegal Channel Immigrants In 2021 So Far
Times columnist Melanie Phillips recently pointed to the pernicious effect of the lack of effective action by the government to tackle illegal Channel crossings (see piece, published 2 March 2021). Statistics released by the Home Office suggest that, between 1 January 2019 and 1 October 2020, less than 250 migrants who crossed the English Channel were returned to mainland […]
Outcomes for UK-based applicants for nursing courses
1. Analysis of figures released by UCAS show that a majority (54%) of UK-domiciled applicants to nursing courses have been rejected since 2010 (348,000 out of just under 650,000 applicants). 2. More than 23,000 UK-based applicants failed to gain training places last year even as the country faced the initial onslaught of Covid. 36,200 people were […]
What action is the government taking to tackle overstaying?
Summary 1. The number of foreign nationals who need a visa but who the Home Office did not record as departing the UK on time nearly doubled from 50,000 in 2016/17 to nearly 92,000 in 2019/20. Additionally, the most recent investigation into the number of visitors from more than 50 countries who do not need a visitor […]