MIGRATION WATCH UK
This week, the Home Office released its regular updates on asylum and immigration statistics. As expected, there’s no improvement; as feared, things are even worse than they were just twelve months ago.
Those with strong stomachs can read the whole thing here. But we can give you a summary of the grisly details, with a little context to underline how crazy these numbers are.
In the last year, a whopping 853,000 non-visitor visas were issued to foreign nationals. That would be a city larger than Leeds. Imagine the infrastructure needed to support a city as big as Leeds: the hospitals, the cancer wards, the police stations, the prisons, the schools, the support for children with complex educational needs. Has that infrastructure been built? Have those services been provided? Or, once again, will this city-sized mass of people have their needs met by stripping away support for the vulnerable people here already?
In the last year, a record 111,000 people claimed asylum in the UK – the highest number ever recorded, and a 14% increase on July 2023-24 period. Presumably, the closure of the Rwandan scheme and Sir Keir’s farcical so-called returns deal with France, which only returns about 1 in every 17 people who attempt to cross the Channel, has backfired and emboldened people smugglers and economic migrants.
102,000 asylum seekers are currently housed in hotels or other taxpayer funded accommodation – costing an average of £41,000 head/year. This means the total bill could approach £4.2 BILLION over a single year. For context, the NHS spent £18 billion on maternity and childbirth care in 2024, to deliver 590,000 babies. We’re spending more per head to put up immigrants in hotels than we are on newborn British babies!
This only scratches the surface. If you’re as angry about this as we are, we recommend writing to your local MP – details below!
Suggested Email to Your MP
This week, we suggest you contact your MP to express your concern about the recently published Home Office immigration statistics. 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 was appalled to read that the Government has issued 853,000 non-visitor visas to foreign nationals over the twelve months between July 2024 and July 2025. This cannot have occurred by accident! Everyone who comes into Britain on one of those visas will need medical care, space on public transport, and a place to live; but over the last year, we haven’t built anywhere near enough hospitals, train lines or houses. I am worried that this massive surge of migration, continuing the record highs seen under the last Conservative government, will inevitably put pressure on the living standards of my family and other people in our constituency.
Do you support a significant reduction in the number of visas issued over the next twelve months, and the revocation of at least some of the visas issued since July 2024?
Kind regards,
[YOUR NAME HERE]”
Thousands of our supporters have used templates like this to write to their MP. We propose to publish the replies once we have followers’ permission.
Illegal Migration
A rare quiet period this week, with just 116 making the journey across the Channel. Unfortunately, this still means we are on track to exceed 50,000 small boat migrants this year alone – the highest ever.
X Posts of the Week
Following the news that the government will be flying injured Palestinian children and their families to the UK, where they will be eligible for asylum, Emma Schubart has written an excellent thread on the history of Palestinian migration to Arab and Western countries.
The Centre for Migration Control has been vindicated over “factchecking” claims by Sky News that attempted to downplay the scale of migrant sex crimes – see their retraction here.
We shared a graph showing the preciptious decline of White Brits across London’s boroughs since 1961.
Conservative Katie Lam MP has another video on Indefinite Leave to Remain, following up on her video we shared earlier this month.
MW in the Media
A Daily Mail splurge this week; Alp was quoted in this article on asylum seeker family reunion:
“Critics have said the figures are worrying.
Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK, told The Sun: ‘There are huge cost implications at play here, all paid for by the public, who are seldom kept in the picture. And it doesn’t end there.
‘Those granted asylum and joined by family members, will be housed if they have children under 18 who live with them.
‘Add to this access to benefits, schooling, medical and dental care, and we can begin to grasp the frustration and anger felt by people waiting for social housing and in long NHS queues?’“
And Alp was quoted again in this article on the government’s farcical border control announcement:
“Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK which campaigns for tougher border controls, said: ‘The Government has either screwed up by failing to analyse the figures, or it is trying to deceive the public. Neither is acceptable.’”
And finally, Alp was quoted in this story about an Albanian drug dealer now imprisoned for raping a 15 year old girl in Falkirk:
“Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, told the Daily Mail: ‘Three years on from making his way here illegally in a small boat, Zoto is finally to be deported.
‘He should have been refused entry and removed within hours of reaching the UK. A system that allows such a chancer to string it out for three years, at huge cost to the taxpayer, is clearly in desperate need of reform.’”
Our Articles of the Week
And Leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage MP, has written an opinion piece in the Telegraph on how the recent legal challenge over Epping’s asylum hotel shows how the remorseless bureaucratic machinery of the asylum system can be defeated:
“Now the good people of Epping must inspire similar protests around Britain. Wherever people are concerned about the threat posed by young undocumented males living in local hotels and who are free to walk their streets, they should follow the example of the town in Essex.
Let’s hold peaceful protests outside the migrant hotels, and put pressure on local councils to go to court to try and get the illegal immigrants out; we now know that together we can win.
I can say today that the English local councils controlled by the party I lead, Reform UK, will be doing everything in their power to follow Epping’s lead.
We are told that some 32,000 asylum seekers are now housed in British hotels, many of them young, undocumented males who have broken into the UK illegally. They should not be treated as privileged guests at taxpayers’ expense, and should not be free to walk our streets. The Labour Government must now answer the question: whose side are you on? ”
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SOURCE: Migration Watch UK Newsletter
See Related Article Below
Record 111,000 Claims From Asylum Seekers in Labour’s First Year
Applications for asylum were up 14% on the previous 12 months after a surge in migrants reaching Britain in small boats, official figures show. The Times has more.
A record 111,000 people claimed asylum in the UK during Sir Keir Starmer’s first year in office after a surge in small boat crossings.
Applications for refugee status rose by 14% to 111,084 in the year to June – nearly double the figure in 2021, and 8% more than the previous peak in 2022.
There was also an 8% rise in the number of asylum seekers placed in migrant hotels, a practice that is in jeopardy after a High Court ruling this week. The number rose from 29,585 to 32,059. A similar rise was seen in other types of accommodation being used to house migrants, up 6% from 67,057 to 70,807.
Some hotels have become a hotspot for demonstrations by protesters and counter-protesters, culminating in Epping Forest district council being granted a temporary injunction on Tuesday to allow it to remove migrants from a hotel in the area.
The new figures will pile further pressure on Starmer. Ministers are trying to find alternative accommodation for the migrants and and preparing for dozens of other councils to mount similar legal challenges.
The number of people in receipt of asylum support was up 5% year-on-year, quarterly statistics published by the Home Office showed. The northwest and northeast of England are likely to have felt the greatest impact from housing asylum seekers, in proportion to the number of residents. They are housing 2,739 and 2,643 people per million residents, respectively.
Small boat arrivals have continued to rise significantly. There were 49,341 migrants recorded as arriving “irregularly” on dinghies from France in the year to June – a rise of 27%.
However, children were increasingly less likely to be among those arriving. The proportion had been fairly stable at about 16% but in the first six months of this year it fell to 10%. The Home Office said this “may partly relate to changes in nationalities”.
Worth reading in full.
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