One in 100 people in the U.K. are illegal immigrants and the country is home to more illegal migrants than any other European nation, a new Oxford study has found. The Telegraph has more.
There are up to 745,000 illegal migrants in the U.K., accounting for one in 100 of the population, according to the research led by Oxford University experts.
This is more than double the 300,000 in France and ahead even of the upper estimate of 700,000 in Germany, which has the second-largest population of illegal migrants in Europe.
The figures were disclosed as the Home Office said 973 migrants in 17 small boats crossed the English Channel on Saturday, the biggest daily number this year.
The total number of people to cross in 2024 is 26,612, up 5% on 2023 at the same stage, but 21% behind the record 33,611 at this point in 2022.
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Guy Dampier says the true number based on Pew Research figures could be as high as 1.5 million (one in 50 people) and that the main problem is the pull factors that draw people to our shores:
Britain is unusual in being an island, so getting here ought to be harder than it is to get to other countries in Europe. We can see that in the way illegal immigrants often have to smuggle themselves here in vans or over the Channel in small boats. This is more difficult than crossing most land borders.
These things taken together mean that the pull factors for illegal immigrants to come to Britain must be higher than elsewhere in Europe. The ubiquity of the English language is one element. The existence of numerous diaspora groups here is another because, as Paul Collier has shown, immigrants tend to go to places where there are existing communities for them to join. The main reasons why we are so popular however must be related to our permissive job market and the failure of the authorities to guard our borders.
The French have long blamed our job market for attracting the illegal immigrants who transit through France. The most infamous example are apps like Deliveroo, who allowed workers to share their profiles with others with minimal checks on documentation. That made it easy for illegal immigrants to work here. Although the last Government brought in changes, it remains easy for illegal immigrants to work in the black economy.
Some of the rest of the blame has to fall on the failure of successive Governments to get a grip on immigration. That the Home Office fails to estimate the number of illegals and lets academics do their job instead is indicative of an unwillingness to grapple with the issue.
He might also have mentioned the U.K.’s extraordinary approval rate of asylum applications: 75% in 2023, compared to France’s 31%.
This morning it’s reported that an Albanian criminal who sneaked back into Britain after being deported has won the right to stay under the the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Telegraph reports .
Ardit Binaj, 32, was freed six months into a two-and-a-half year jail sentence for burglary and deported as part of a prisoner transfer agreement with Albania.
However, within months he re-entered Britain in breach of the deportation order to be with his Lithuanian girlfriend, who had leave to remain in the U.K. under the Government’s EU settlement scheme.
They subsequently had a baby and married, enabling him to lodge his successful claim that an attempt by the Home Office to deport him again would breach his Article 8 ECHR rights to a family life.
The case, revealed in court documents seen by the Telegraph, will revive demands for Britain to quit or seek reform of the ECHR.
Last week, Boris Johnson said a referendum should be held on membership of the convention, which critics say prevents Britain from having full control of its immigration policy and blocks its sovereign right to deport criminals or migrants who have illegally entered the U.K.
But what are the chances that Surrender Starmer will do anything to get to grips with the problem? After 14 years of the Tories spectacularly failing to address it – and most of the Tory leadership candidates still hedging on whether it’s necessary to leave the ECHR – it’s very hard to see a ‘progressive’ Labour Government actually doing what’s necessary. Britain’s borders look set to remain porous for a long time yet.
Stop Press: A surge in immigration has driven the fastest increase in the U.K. population on record, with the population growing by 1% in 2023 to 68.3m, the Telegraph reports. This was driven entirely by immigration as more people died across the UK than were born over the year, meaning the population would have shrunk without the influx.
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No. They’re not Brits.
You beat me by about 30 seconds.
Agreed. And that’s coming from me, a perfectly legal immigrant who has lived here for more than half of his life.
Apart from a few exceptional cases you need to be born in Britain to be a Brit.
Legal immigrants can become Brits. My father was born in what became Pakistan and came to Britain in 1951 (after partition). Apparently he had a Pakistani accent which slowly faded.
I think many of the illegal migrants do not want to be Brits. They may pay lip-service to the idea only until they get their ECHR status sorted out.
Absolutely. But in my experience it’s difficult to assimilate spiritually; there is a certain part of your soul that remains a stranger.
Which football team would you root for, if your native country played against your adopted country is a good indicator.
And more importantly what side will you be on in a war?
Indeed.
It’s a minor point, but . . . “One in 100 Brits Are Illegal Immigrants”.
Every 100 people who are British are having to put up with the cost and criminality of one or two people here illegally.
Cost, criminality and cultural differences. Cultural differences are unsettling and cause friction, and they make life less pleasant for those already here.
Some of these people will have children, potentially at a higher rate than people from British ethnic groups and at a higher rate than others from rich world countries, especially white Europeans with whom we have more in common.
Of course, there are the legal immigrants too, who were invited here but should not have been in such numbers.
Indeed ToF, the deliberate undermining of the nation’s sense of shared identity is the (African, Indian . . Pakistani . . .) elephant in the room.
I don’t buy the idea that the UK is some especially attractive magnet for immigrants, compared to other European countries.
The massive influx of illegal immigrants is deliberate policy. The policy may be unofficial, it may not come from our elected representatives (no policy cones from them, they just rubber stamp). But it’s clearly deliberate. Not doing anything to stop it is also a decision.
What are the reasons for the apparently deliberate attempt to import more people? For the current US Government, the deliberate immigration policy is most likely to provide additional voters in swing states. Non-citizen status doesn’t seem to be a problem to election officials, as there are many reports of non-citizens receiving ballots and instructions on how to vote. Do business interests want more immigrants? In my community, I notice the non-English speaking roofers, lawn-care workers, and laborers are on temporary visas and return to their countries during the winter. Why would immigrants work if they’re getting generous benefits from the government for the foreseeable future? Are the US and UK policies just a way to “reset” the population and show contempt and even hatred of our own countries?
It’s a good question.
If you assume the establishment to be mostly left wing, as I believe it to be, then the reasons could be similar in that a migrant population will guarantee support for left wing “progressive” policies for many years.
More likely though I think there is an unresolved question about what do you do about a shrinking population, which is the inevitable consequence of a fertility rate below replacement.
It’s an unresolved question because some people think you don’t need to do anything other than adapt to it. But there are those that think that it will lead to serious economic problems and you need a stable or growing workforce to pay the debt and all the benefits.
I think those in the establishment are more inclined to believe the latter and are taking matters into their own hands without allowing a public debate and decision on it. I believe they think as they do with so many other things that the matter is too important and consequential to leave to the public.
Their worldview is also helped along by the sense that illegal migrants aren’t going to be taking any establishment jobs any time soon but rather get jobs they need done that Brits won’t necessarily do any more or not as cheaply.
Hungary get rid of them, so the fact that we don’t is deliberate.
Also alarming is the fact inserted at the end of the article: There were more deaths than births last year in the UK. Is the excess death rate still high? Birth rates dropped yet again?
Both of those things – though the previously normal death rates are actually skewed slightly away from the elderly (eg 85+) to younger age groups.
This chart may also be of interest (data source ONS):
Birth rates are down almost everywhere in the world and have been dropping for decades.
The world is largely unaware of this, is conditioned by years of miseducation about overpopulation and insufficient resources and is completely unprepared for what’s coming.
On top of that, I strongly suspect that the population of Britain is significantly higher than the official statistics figures. I’d hazard a guess there are at least a few hundred thousand people here that don’t show up in any statistics.
In the millions, if not 10 million+… studies were done by retailers etc iirc
These sick, b’stard, dangerous men being imported. If they’re not stabbing and murdering citizens, they’re grooming and raping women and kids. This is France, but if he’d already been convicted in Switzerland why wasn’t he deported from there? What do these dirtbags have to do to get deported from Europe, FGS?
”A 39-year-old Algerian, with a deportation order (OQTF), has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after being found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl in her hospital bed at the Toulouse University Hospital in November 2021.
The convicted man, Ismael C., received his sentence in the Haute-Garonne criminal court and had already been convicted of similar acts in Switzerland. On top of the other two rapes, he was also found guilty of brutally raping another young woman in the middle of the street in the Capitole district; he also tried to steal this victim’s phone.
During the trial, the defendant shocked the courtroom by claiming the raped women were all consenting and “miming” out the rape by physically humping the air.
“They were consenting, it’s a miscarriage of justice, I’m the victim, I’m weak and incapable of forcing,” he said. The newspaper La Depeche described “unease in the courtroom” when the defendant pantomimed a rape in front of the court.
The public prosecutor requested 18 years in prison because experts noted the man presented a “significant sexual danger.”
https://rmx.news/article/france-algerian-sentenced-to-17-years-for-raping-a-minor-in-a-hospital-and-raping-another-woman-on-the-street/
This is Barcelona. Watch the video, what would you have done if this was your child or grandchild? I’d have battered him, no question. Nasty, vile, dangerous PoS;
A viral video of a man striking a baby in Spain has gone viral, with the suspect arrested in Montjuïc, Barcelona, for assaulting several people and attacking a one-year-old girl. However, the baby was not the only victim, with the Ecuadorian migrant attacking many people that same day.
The 31-year-old suspect, who was arrested on Sunday, assaulted three people in the Montjuïc Park area. Among the victims is the one-year-old baby, the child of French tourists, with the video accumulating tens of millions of views on different accounts across social media.
The police found the suspect in the park after conducting a search, and he was arrested for the three separate attacks. In addition, the man is also considered a suspect in a number of other random attacks in Montjuïc in recent days.
Several witnesses have come forward who are willing to testify against the Ecuadorian migrant. The baby suffered minor injuries and did not require hospitalization.”
https://rmx.news/article/video-of-migrant-man-striking-a-baby-in-spain-goes-viral-2-other-victims-also-identified/
Thanks for that
ha ha ha ha ha ha jeez——People have been name called as “racist” “little Englanders” and worse for years and years trying to warn of this clutter and now finally the numbers don’t lie. So all the name callers are simply brainwashed EU planet saving mass immigration twerps as most of us on this site have known for ages.
Some interesting stats here;
”Based on a Facts4EU analysis of the latest Home Office data files we can reveal that only 2.96% of illegal migrants arriving by small boats across the English Channel have been deported. More than 97% remain in the UK and 80% of them are single males aged under 40.”
https://facts4eu.org/news/2024_oct_deportations_II
Enlighten me if I am wrong but who pays for these appeals to the ECHR? Let me guess – it’s us the taxpayers.
A solution would be that if someone wants to appeal the decision against deportation they pay for it themselves. This would stop the merry go round of appeal after appeal.
In other countries there are no ‘appeals’ procedures. If you are to be deported then you are deported – at your own cost. Same as being held in detention until deportation – the person has to pay for it themselves.
Unlike ‘soft-touch’ Britain.
Our birth rate may be falling for the same reasons we are despairing of.
I’m in my mid seventies and had my 2 children over fifty years ago when things were just as financially tight, no UC, no child benefit for the first child till 1975, and during a downturn in our economy.
However now intelligent young white women see the drawbacks of bringing a child into our world, surrounded by migrants (many legal)non English speaking children in schools, left wing woke ‘education’, little chance of a university place.
A previously safer world not as now, where it’s populated by a culture of young men who don’t belong here, don’t share our values, don’t regard women with any respect, in fact they hate us and their new country.