Last week, almost a thousand more illegal migrants entered the country via small boats. Over 204,000 have arrived since 2018. And of them, 76,352 have broken into Britain since Labour’s election win, just under two years ago. Almost all of them claim asylum. Almost none of them are ever deported. Meanwhile the migrant crime wave rolls on. On Friday, three Afghan men who raped a teenage girl before fleeing the country in the back of a lorry were found guilty.
Our borders are not secure. It would be an act of wilful neglect to introduce another route for those who wish to live here at our expense
On legal migration too, the signs are bleak. The Home Secretary’s long-promised reforms to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) are yet to be enacted. This means that migrants who came to the country post-Covid as part of the Boriswave are now being granted ILR, entitling them to benefits and housing. They will even be entitled to state pensions under the pensions credit scheme. According to the Home Office’s core estimate, 1.6 million will settle by 2030. Under their ‘high case’ forecast, 2.2 million will. The cost of these people, generally low earners, who will never be net contributors, could be in the hundreds of billions. It is fiscal suicide for Britain.
