Pope Leo, like Francis, is an open borders enthusiast for whom it seems no migrant should be turned away. Why are senior churchmen so blind to sense and deaf to public concerns on border security, asks Prof Roger Watson.
Asylum hotels and other accommodation will cost the taxpayer £15 billion over 10 years – £4 million a day and more than triple the Government's original estimate, the National Audit Office has revealed.
Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf says the party will use every lever available – including legal action – to stop asylum seekers being housed in areas where it now controls councils.
Benefits claims by refugee households have increased by 33% in a year as costs surge above £1 billion for the first time, Government data show – and that's before the recent record small boats arrivals begin to claim.
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
Reform is favourite to win the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, overturning Labour's 14,700 majority. Why? It might have something to do with having the nation's third-highest number of asylum seekers, says Steven Tucker.
Reform could learn some valuable lessons from the Danish People's Party, says Tom Jones. By focusing on immigration, it forced the Left to clamp down on asylum seekers. Reform, by contrast, seems chaotic and unfocused.
A Colombian migrant who committed 27 offences to fund his drug and drink habit and who violated a restraining order against his former partner has avoided deportation under ECHR human rights rules for "family life".
Migrants will be housed in hotels for years to come at a cost of £5.5m a day, the Treasury has admitted, as figures show there are 8,000 more asylum seekers in hotels than when Starmer pledged to "end asylum hotels".
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation doles out £49m a year on "migrant justice", "gender justice" and "racial justice" programmes, among others. It's just one part of the ecosystem of far Left ghastliness, says Charlotte Gill.
