What Do The Public Think About Illegal Channel Crossings?
55% of the public, including 77% of voters who backed the Tories at the last election, believe the Government’s approach to managing Channel crossings is “too soft”, according to a Redfield and Wilton Strategies poll published in late November 2021 (see report here). The news comes as November 2021 saw the highest number of monthly illegal crossings ever – […]
Home Secretary Dodges Question Of Whether Immigration Will Go Up Or Down
In November 2019 (before the most recent General Election), the Home Secretary pledged that immigration would come down as a result of planned reforms to the immigration system. See Times article – ‘Election 2019: We will reduce migration, pledges Patel‘, November 2019. Immigration by non-UK citizens has run at about 560,000 per year (2015-20), with the net inflow running […]
Uk’s Eight Million Population Rise Drives Congestion, Gridlock And Declining Quality Of Life
The relentless expansion of the UK’s population is coming to a head as new figures from the ONS suggest that the country has reached the landmark level of 67 million. The British population has risen by around 430,000 each year since 2000, an amount equivalent to bringing in nearly the population of Bristol annually. Over four-fifths […]
Experimental Official Research: Net Migration In Year To June 2020 Was 247,000
Migration statistics can be used to estimate the flow of migrants in and out of the UK and to estimate the number of migrants living in the UK (the stock). One estimate of the flow of migrants is the United Nations definition of a migrant; someone who moves to another country for at least 12 […]
Our Written Evidence On The Government’s Proposed Asylum Reforms
The government announced changes to the immigration and asylum system in March 2021. See the Home Secretary’s statement to Parliament on the government’s proposals. A policy statement is available here. Migration Watch UK welcomes the government’s renewed efforts to deter illegal immigration and tackle asylum abuse. Illegal entry is “most common method of entry for asylum seekers”. […]
Official Statistics Body May Have Under-counted Net Immigration Of Foreigners By 380,000 (2011-20)
The Office for National Statistics has produced experimental research which estimatedthat net immigration from overseas to the UK in the year to June 2020 was just over 282,000. Here are the key takeaways of the experimental and provisional research methodology which the ONS hopes to deploy for future estimates: The ONS arrived at these figures using modelled […]
100,000+ Convictions For Not Paying Television Licence Fee But Fewer Than 50 For Illegal Entry
There were 114,000 convictions of UK residents for TV licence fee evasion in 2019 (Ministry of Justice data). In contrast there have been less than 50 convictions for illegal entry or overstaying under Section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971 in each of the past four years (2018-2021). The statute book is full to bursting with criminal […]
Failure To Secure Border Threatens You And Your Family
Asylum chaos and law enforcement failures threaten YOU and YOUR FAMILY. Illegal entries have skyrocketed in 2021 and almost everyone arriving deliberately destroys their identity documentation so there is limited means of ever finding out who most people really are. This is the major security concern stemming from the massive rise in illegal immigration that has occurred this […]
Illegal Entries Rose Even As Global Travel Was Restricted During Pandemic
The government has detailed its proposals for tackling abuse of the asylum system in a new policy statementissued late last month. It includes news that nearly 50,000 people who were detected having illegally arrived in the UK by various means (see below and Home Office policy statement, March 2021). The document confirms that the number of illegal […]
Alarming Rise In Abuse Of Modern Slavery Laws
Two in three modern slavery referrals made by foreign nationals in detention that were concluded between 2017 and 2019 were rejected. This rejection rate increased from 65% in 2017 to 70% in 2019. Table 1- Outcomes of modern slavery referrals from detention (HO analysis, Mar 2021). The news comes as the Home Office revealed it […]