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Don’t Be Fooled – This Government Is Not In Control Of Illegal Immigration
The Home Office today (9th September) issued a press release titled, ‘For the first time, small boat migrants arriving in the UK face being detained and returned to France’. Promising title – but is it…
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Cutting Student Visas: Bringing Migration Under Control
The numbers speak for themselves. In 2024, student visas accounted for 45% of all UK entry visas issued – the single largest route for legal migration. This surge is no accident. In 2019, ministers set…
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Migration Is Changing Your Area – Just Look At These Numbers.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its official estimates for the population of England and Wales yesterday, and the results make for dire reading. Already the headlines are coming in thick and fast: “Migration fuels population…
Learn MoreA Shocking Year, Strewn With Failure. Pull Your Socks up or go!
It’s been exactly one year since Labour won the 2024 General Election. Given that “immigration and asylum” was the second-most important issue for voters at the time – and by far the most important issue for Conservative…
Learn MoreWar In Iran Will Only Make Britain’s Migration Crisis Worse
The regional fallouts of the conflict engulfing Iran are yet to reveal themselves, but one catastrophic consequence is definitely not in doubt: Britain’s migration crisis will further deepen. Iran is already the nation from which…
Learn MoreIs The Prime Minister’s Plan Working?
Can the government stop the boats? Speaking in Dover today, the Prime Minister gave an update on his pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel. Illegal crossings, he said, are down 20 per…
Learn MoreA Passage From India – Explaining The Unexpected Rise Of Indians Crossing The Channel
This week the government disclosed that in 2023 Indians have been the second largest group of people illegally crossing the English Channel in small boats, making up 18 per cent of all crossings. Although the increase…
Learn MoreFrom Baghdad To Bournemouth – Granting Refuge To Terrorists
It emerged in the Daily Mail recently that among those who illegally entered the UK in a dinghy last year were 19 suspected terrorists, several of whom are thought to have been members of the…
Learn MoreDoes Britain Think Immigration Is Too High?
Polling is central to modern politics. For governments, it is a means of testing public reaction to policies. More and more nowadays it is done with focus groups to test the popularity or otherwise of…
Learn MoreMigration Watch Co-founder Lord Green Leads Fightback Against Open Borders In Parliament
“Our asylum system is in chaos, and very visibly so,” said Migration Watch UK President and Co-Founder Lord Green of Deddington in Parliament. “Large numbers of claimants are turning up on our beaches.” This week Lord Green spoke up in the House of Lords for more than 30 million Britons who
Covering Up Daily Boat Arrivals Is To Aid Transparency, Says Member Of Parliament
The government is censoring your right to know the truth. Never before have such frightened politicians resorted to such desperate, obvious means to hide their own failure from the people who voted them into office and who pay their salaries. As the increasingly hard-pressed public (burdened with rising energy costs
Has The Channel Boat Cover Up Already Begun?
The government has failed to inform the public about whether there have been any illegal Channel crossings in boats for two whole weeks – since 26 January (see our Channel Tracking Station, sign the petitionto express concern about the boat cover up and write to your MP to say no here). From 26 January to
360,000 Have Come Here Via Direct Resettlement Routes Since 2005
On 15 June 2022, the Home Secretary statedin Parliament on 15 June: ‘Over 200,000 people have used safe and legal routes to come to the UK since 2015.’ Our fact-check finds that this is true. Not including refugee family reunion (2016-22), the number of people directly resettled to the UK was 267,000.
Sign This Petition – We Must Have Transparency From The Home Office On Channel Boat Arrivals
Without transparency, democracy is impossible. Officials must not be able to get away with hiding the truth. Migration Watch UK has launched a petitionto tell the government that it must not cover up the daily arrival totals of people coming to the UK via the English Channel in boats. Instead it should continue
Britain Not Obliged To Take In Europe’s Failed Asylum Claimants: Parliamentary Committee
Although we often criticise the political class for being out of touch on immigration, a Parliamentary Committee did make a sensible statement recently which is worth putting on record. The statement was made in response to written evidencewhich we submitted. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights recently said in a report: “It is