Three Labour Police and Crime Commissioners have published a pro-immigration ‘fact sheet’ that claims migrants contribute more to the economy than they take out and immigration may cut crime. The Telegraph has more.
The PCCs of Durham, Northumbria and Cleveland have joined up with pro-migrant group The North East Migration Partnership (NEMP) to produce the leaflet, which will be distributed to community centres and libraries across the three regions.
The NEMP says on its website that it “provides support to migrants” and “helps make sure the region can benefit from migration”.
The ‘Migrant Myth Busters’ leaflet claims to “take common myths” about new arrivals and dispel them.
The two-page document features nine “myths”, including that migrants “drain our public resources”.
“Quite the opposite,” the leaflet claims, suggesting that migrants coming to the UK will contribute more than the average British citizen.
It reads: “The Office of Budget Responsibility estimates that the average migrant, who moves to this country at the age of 25 and lives until 80, will contribute £341,000 to public finances over the course of their lives. That’s more than a British citizen contributes on average.”
Last year, the OBR found low-wage migrants cost taxpayers more than £150,000 each by the time they hit state pension age, and cost the Government more than they paid in from the moment they arrived.
The leaflet also suggests that there is “no evidence” that “migrants bring crime to our streets”.
Only 12% of prisoners are immigrants, the leaflet states, which “reflects the percentage of migrants in the population”.
“In fact, various studies have found that neither asylum seekers nor other types of migrants could be linked to significant changes in violent crime,” it added.
“One study found that there could be a link between waves of immigration and falling crime rates.”
In August, the Telegraph revealed that at least 200 people living in asylum seeker hotels have been charged with criminal offences this year.
Court records show that 211 people living in hotels, which are used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers, have been charged with a combined 425 offences.
Of these,109 were violent offences and 44 were sexual offences, including four counts of alleged rape. There were also 63 theft-related offences.
Last week it was revealed an Egyptian migrant described as “a serious criminal” and “a danger to the community” won his appeal to stay in the UK.
The man, in his early 20s, won an asylum claim on human rights grounds, despite having committed 19 crimes since arriving in the UK nine years ago.
And now let’s look at what Matt Goodwin discovered earlier this year about crime – via FOIs, not officially published statistics, naturally:
In recent years, the data show, foreign nationals were convicted of nearly one-quarter of all sexual assaults and rapes in Britain, despite making up only 9% of the population.
Remarkably, contrary to what you hear in London, Oxford, and Cambridge, foreign nationals are 71% more likely than British to be convicted for sex crimes. …
More generally, beyond sexual offences, the new information released by police authorities also shows that foreign nationals are 69% more likely than British people to be convicted for drug crimes, 25% more likely to be convicted for theft and 39% more likely to be convicted for all crimes.
So much for not affecting violent crime.
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