MIGRATION WATCH UK

Attention this week has focused on the abject farce of what the government coyishly describes as “supervised accommodation”. What this really means is hotels booked entirely for migrants who have illegally crossed the Channel, and then immediately started working in Britain’s burgeoning black economy while the supervisors stand by wringing their hands.

Illegal immigrants who are placed in these hotels receive free housing, meals, dentist and GP appointments, entertainment, bus and train fares, and £50 a week in pocket money. Working illegally under the table can easily net them a few hundred quid a week more. With all their living expenses paid for, this money is purely disposable income.

Once you have paid for your home, bills, food, and other expenses, do YOU have £1,000+ a month left over? Do your children, parents, friends or colleagues?

Professor Stafford Beer famously said:

“The purpose of a system is what it does.”

It is hard to avoid concluding the purpose of our system is now to provide massive subsidies to people who come here illegally with the intention of breaking into the country, work illegally and drive down the wages of hard working British taxpayers who pay for it all. It’s tantamount to being made to cut our own throats.

Of course, we can’t excuse the opportunistic companies that profit from this system either.

Delivery companies like UberEats, Deliveroo and Just Eat legally describe their workers as contractors. This allows the “contractors” to find a substitute to do their work when the contractor is unavailable. In practice, this means people with the right to work in Britain simply apply to work for one of these delivery companies, then rent their account to someone who does not have the right to work in Britain.

This suits the delivery companies just fine – illegal workers are unlikely to complain about poor working conditions or pay below minimum wage.

Piles of bikes outside a migrant hotel. Credit: Paul Edwards, the Sun

Despite the previous Conservative government asking the companies to reign in this flagrant abuse, nothing has been done to actually enforce employment and asylum law. Earlier this week, a reporter from the Express saw multiple delivery drivers leaving a three-star asylum hotel in central London. There was even more comprehensive coverage in The Sun on Tuesday and Wednesday (which includes commentary from our chairman, Alp Mehmet). It’s clear the problem has now grown out of control. The traffickers and illegal migrants are benefiting, as are the food delivery companies; is it any wonder illegal Channel crossings are at a record high?

Fundamentally, this problem will not be solved until we:

• Ban the likes of Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat from permitting their drivers to rent out their accounts.
• Impose punitive fines on the companies that turn a blind eye to this dangerous practice.
•  Make clear that migrants found to be working illegally while awaiting a decision on their asylum application will not be granted asylum.
• Require the companies to control and monitor the issue of licences.
•  Ensure applicants for these accounts are properly vetted to check they have the right to work, but also to make sure they do not pose a danger to those they deliver to — especially women and the elderly.

This subsidy for criminality must not continue – the government must act!

Illegal migration

As we predicted last week, the number of migrants crossing the Channel surged over 18,000 this week, with over a thousand people crossing on Saturday and Sunday. It will almost certainly go over 19,000 this weekend!

This June is already the worst since records began in 2018. If the trend continues, we expect roughly 70,000 people could cross by the end of this year.

X Posts of the week

An insightful thread by Twitter user thdhmo about the impossibility of assimilation into a society with no dominant culture.

Migration Watch commented on a news story which broke earlier in the week about a Tajikistani migrant who successfully claimed asylum on the grounds that he would be forced to shave his beard if deported home.

And Robert Jenrick MP has collaborated with the think tank Onward to produce a report showing mass migration has added an extra £132 a month to rents in England since 2001. You can read the full report here.

MWUK in the media

Our Chairman, Alp Mehmet, wrote an article in the Sun about the scandal of migrants working illegally while being subsidised by British taxpayers:

“I find it very difficult to believe that ministers do not see the connection between the ease with which traffickers can get migrants here — with a helping hand from Border Force and the RNLI — and into well-paid, untaxed jobs.

After arriving on our shores and a cursory check, migrants are given free accommodation, £40-plus pocket money a week and, now it seems, easy access to a job in one of the fastest-growing sectors in the economy.”

Alp also appeared on TalkTV with Mike Graham – you can watch a clip of the interview here.

Our articles of the week

The Telegraph reports Imran Mulla, a Home Office employee, has been convicted of corruption after offering to provide visas to failed asylum seekers for cash:

“A Home Office caseworker took more than £3,000 in bribes to grant the asylum claim of a Bangladeshi migrant.

Civil servant Imran Mulla, 39, rang the Bangladeshi man the day after his asylum claim was refused in February 2024 and offered to take over his case to secure him the right to stay in the UK in return for money.”

Former MP Douglas Carswell has written an excellent blog post on how mass migration is destroying the welfare state:

“Imagine if almost a billion pounds in Universal Credit was being claimed each month by households containing foreign nationals.

What if more than three-quarters of a million foreign-born tenants were occupying social housing in this country, with almost half of London’s social housing taken up by this group?

You don’t need to imagine any of this. It’s happening now.”

And finally, the always perspicacious Chris Bayliss has written for the Critic about the status obsessed – but failing – British state

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