MIGRATION WATCH UK

News broke this week that, on the face of it looks to be welcome, the government is cracking down on illegal immigration. As if we haven’t heard this all before…

The Home Office’s new rules mean that any refugee convicted of sexual assault “will be denied refugee status”, while the Immigration Advice Authority will be given “expanded powers” to investigate fraudulent immigration lawyers, issuing fines of up to £15,000.

As we pointed out in last week’s newsletter, this must be viewed with scepticism. This is a government led by a man who actively prevented foreign-born criminals from being deported, and – as Matt Goodwin wrote about these latest announcements – this government is gaslighting the public into thinking action will be taken when, really, the opposite will happen.

How might that happen? As Chris Philp says, “foreign criminals will just use ECHR Article 3 instead”; put simply, the European Convention on Human Rights – integrated into British law by the Human Rights Act – will be used to prevent “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”.

Moreover, it is doubtful this will be a sufficient deterrent – the industry that has sprung up around migrant smuggling is highly lucrative. Can we confidently say that these phony lawyers are not in the pay of the smugglers?

Illegal immigration is a problem, of course it is, but at this stage it’s the scale of legal immigration and the government’s complicity in facilitating the sheer size of it all. The news that broke over the weekend of the agreement between the government and the Serco Group to pay landlords to house asylum seekers shows just how much the government is unwilling to confront the real factors fuelling an increase in migration. As the article says, “the list shows local authorities where Serco has been contracted to provide dispersal asylum accommodation under a deal agreed six years ago.”

This is infuriating, definitely, but this is sadly not new. It was, in fact, a programme begun under the Tories, and Serco is one of three organisations contracted by the government to provide these “services”. As is so often the case, we wrote tried to warn people about this; nearly five years ago, in our briefing on what happens to those crossing the Channel illegally, we listed those three companies whose 10-year contracts started in 2019:

• Serco, worth £1.9 billion.
• Clearsprings, worth £1.1 billon.
• Mears, worth £1 billion.

Alp commented on this for Michael Portillo’s show on GB News, the full clip of which can be found below, pointing out that the whole British government system is struggling to know what to do.

When will the government make the safety, security and wellbeing of its own people a priority? You can write to your MP – find your MP here – and ask them to speak out against this debacle.

Illegal migration

The number of small-boat crossings this year has reached 11,000. This is almost a month earlier than in 2024, and as the weather in the Channel improved, this week has seen 1,436.

X Posts (formerly “Tweets”) of the week

Nick Timothy asked the very important question of how “domestic disintegration” fuelled by sectarianism, imported through mass immigration, can be combatted, and urged politicians in Britain to stop encouraging this trend. His words were, inevitably, twisted out of shape.

Meanwhile, Robert Jenrick put together a very informative thread on a judge called Rebecca Chapman, who also works as a caseworker for a charity that advises migrants in Calais who are looking to enter Britain illegally. Such a conflict of interest is without doubt the tip of the iceberg.

MWUK in the media

Alp has spoken to TalkTV (see below) on how we have rolled out the “welcome mat from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe”.

Alp also went on Michael Portillo’s GB News show (see below) to discuss the Serco fiasco, and the total failure of the government in confronting this.

Our articles of the week

Rakib Ehsan wrote for The Telegraph on the dangerous impact of mass immigration on Britain’s public order, after footage leaked of Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar encouraging Pakistanis to move into “the corridors of power”. He writes:

“Anas Sarwar embodies the fascinating double-faced nature of much of the ethnic-minority politics which has taken hold on the contemporary British Left: a mixture of a progressive and woke exterior over matters such as gender self-identification, with an intensely reactionary interior that is reserved for “the community.”

Meanwhile, Douglas Murray spoke to GB News about the concerning impacts of immigration on the erasure of the white British population.

What can you do?

Do write to your MP. Let them know how you feel about the harm runaway immigration is doing to our country. Tell them to push the government, in heaven’s name, to get a grip.

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SOURCE: Migration Watch UK newsletter 

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