MIGRATION WATCH UK
Recently, a High Court ruled that Epping Forest District Council could close a hotel in Epping which had been commandeered by the Home Office to house asylum seekers, on the grounds that it posed a danger to nearby residents and was a breach of the hotel’s approved conditions of use under local planning law.
Lawyers acting on behalf of the Home Office and the accommodation contractor, Somani Hotels, challenged this decision in the Court of Appeals – arguing that the safety of local people in Epping was less important that ensuring asylum seekers. Mr Ed Brown, KC, claimed, “There is a national interest in ensuring vulnerable individuals, namely asylum seekers, are accommodated.“ The Telegraph also reports a lawyer claimed the relevant public interests are “fundamentally different in nature”, meaning the rights of asylum seekers under the European Convention on Human Rights take priority.
This is obviously an absurd argument which places the interests of migrants above those of citizens. If, for some reason, you became homeless or destitute, do you think the government would hire expensive lawyers to argue for your rights?
Staggeringly, in the last few minutes the Court of Appeals has published their judgement: siding with the Home Office and establishing the precedent that asylum hotels must remain open, even if they pose an unacceptable risk to British citizens living nearby.
This is a direct consequence of our political and judicial class treating the European Convention on Human Rights, and by extension the 1998 Human Rights Act, as sacrosanct. Despite a clear change in circumstances, and mountains of evidence of abuse, they insist on sticking to the letter of a document written for a different century.
As Migration Watch has argued, leaving the ECHR is absolutely essential – and we anticipate the voices arguing for this will become even louder in the coming days.
Suggested Email to Your MP
This week, we suggest you contact your MP to express your concern about immigrants using the student visa scheme to enter the UK then claiming asylum to avoid deportation. You can write anything you like, but we have provided a template below for your convenience. You can verify your local MP here:
https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP.
“Dear [NAME OF MP],
I am one of your constituents, living at [YOUR ADDRESS HERE].
I am a supporter of Migration Watch, which has recently published a new report on the student visa scheme. You can view the report here:
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/522/the-future-of-student-visas .
I was shocked to discover that over 2,000 Indian nationals living in the UK on student visas have claimed asylum in the last twelve months. India is the world’s fifth largest economy. There is no war there, and it is a democracy with an elected leader. It seems our asylum system is completely broken if Indian applicants get anything other than an automatic rejection!
I am deeply worried by the incentives this sets. Indian nationals can travel to the UK on student visas with fraudulent credit checks (as detailed by Tony Smith, former director of the UK Border Force) and then claim asylum, at which point they will be housed and fed by the British taxpayer. How is this fair, either for British taxpayers or potential genuine asylum claimants?
I would be very grateful if you could write to the Home Secretary on behalf of your constituents to request an immediate pause on Indian national student visa holders being permitted to apply for asylum, or a request for a pause on student visa holders being permitted to apply for asylum more broadly.
If you are in favour of Indian national student visa holders being able to claim asylum, I would appreciate a response explaining your position.
Kind regards,
[YOUR NAME HERE]”
If you receive a response from your MP and are comfortable sharing it, please forward it on to us – we are always interested!
Illegal Migration
Channel crossings since January 1st 2025 crossed 29,000 this week after almost a thousand people were intercepted at sea. This puts us less than 500 crossings away from the annual total of crossings for 2023 – with another four months of the year to go.
X Posts of the Week
YouGov has conducted polling on the biggest issues facing Britain – with concerns about migration reaching their highest levels in almost a decade.
The Centre for Migration Control has published new research showing the number of foreign nationals convicted of sex crimes surged by 62% between 2021 and 2024
Our Articles of the Week
iNews reports the Home Office has created a new incentive scheme for civil servants to “rush through” asylum applications. As the Home Office makes it much quicker to approve claims than reject, this will only further incentivise civil servants to sign off on applications, creating massive liabilities for the taxpayer.
Phil Mullan writes in Spiked Online on the collapsing economic arguments in favour of mass migration:
“High migration levels do raise real economic questions, too, which politicians need to start engaging with. Such as, how many British businesses now depend for their survival on cheap migrant labour? Are governments unwilling to upset this low-wage status quo, beyond a few performative raids on gig workers? Could this openness to low-paid migrants be contributing to the weak business investment and the productivity stagnation that are weighing down our living standards?”
SOURCE: Migration Watch UK newsletter
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