MIGRATION WATCH UK

A welcome announcement this week has come in the form of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s concession to begin publishing crime statistics by nationality. It is a positive development that the public may now begin to appreciate the consequences of mass, uncontrolled immigration, including on public safety.

Kudos must be given to Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick and Professor Matt Goodwin for campaigning consistently against the insanity of our immigration policy (or lack thereof) and the absence of data around it; something Migration Watch has long pointed to. The government has never published a full breakdown of crime statistics by nationality, a key lack of transparency in helping the public to understand, and policy planners to take account of, the impact of mass immigration, typically over fears of being seen as “racist”.

But after nearly a year of campaigning, Jenrick has managed to pressure the government into releasing these tables, with Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pledging to do so. The Home Office has stated that, once it has updated its data collection systems:

“Breakdowns of this data, such as statistics on the type of offences committed by FNOs (foreign national offenders) subject to immigration powers, or their nationalities, will be prepared as ‘experimental statistics’ due to them being derived from a redesigned data system.”

This is a welcome development – but it’s not enough. The public fully deserve to know what the impact of mass immigration is on crime and public safety. We have been pushing for transparency on this issue for a while, with our briefing paper from May last year showing the impact of mass immigration on Britain’s security, connecting the dots between the surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes, terrorism in this country and funding from abroad, and the nationality of those who have been prosecuted.

The government finally conceding the need to publish this data is a positive step, but it is not due to be published until the end of the year, and even then it won’t be anywhere near detailed enough. Jenrick himself described it as a “watered-down” version of his own proposals, saying “this looks like it will not shine the light that we really need on everyone who’s in our country who isn’t a British national and who’s committing crime.”

Alongside this, Sam Ashworth-Hayes in The Telegraph (see the link below) is arguing for the same level of data to be released but in terms of economic contributions and dependency. Britain either does not collect, or does not release, this data, while other European nations do: as Sam writes, Denmark “has calculated that non-Western immigrants and their descendants cost roughly £3bn a year, while Western immigrants and their descendants pay in £1.3bn.” Likewise, in the Netherlands, researchers “have found Western immigrants bring a net benefit of £36,000 each, and non-Western immigrants a drain of £143,000.” Our own research, following on from research carried out by University College London, could only look at two groups of migrants: EEA (European Economic Area) and non-EEA.

There is certainly a need to cut immigration, and we must be informed of the consequences of not doing so, especially for the safety of our citizens. It is welcome that politicians are talking about this more and more, with the idea of a ‘Minister for Deportations’ being floated by Nigel Farage; Farage’s announcement specified that Britain should ensure there is “no more population increase due to net migration”, and that a Reform government would “bring a total end to all asylum claims from people who come here on travel visas or who are overseas students” with more details to follow next month. All of this is greatly encouraging. We look forward to seeing what other thoughts Reform have in their locker.

But it is not sufficient to break down figures just on this basis – we need information and data on the nationality level. This is necessary to help develop a migration policy that helps ensure we receive the individuals we should, and turn away the individuals we don’t have a need for and don’t want.

Illegal migration

735 migrants have crossed the Channel in the last week. Yet the government seems to want to focus on bogus announcements like “return hubs” for refused asylum seekers, as part of their “smash the gangs” nonsense.

How is this a sufficient deterrent?

In the absence of an outright refusal to process those arriving via boats and other illegal routes, there will still be those willing to take their chance, risking their lives and flouting the law, especially with a one in two chance of being granted asylum.

X Posts (formerly “Tweets”) of the week

We shared a clip (thumbnail above) showing how mass immigration is almost entirely responsible for our explosive population growth, though the video repeats uncritically the forecasts of immigration numbers coming down over the next decade. Such projections should be met with scepticism.

There’s also an interesting new campaign to highlight the potential impacts of mass immigration on women’s safety in Britain – clearly the relationship between immigration and crime is not an abstract problem occupying politicians alone.

Our articles of the week

The ever-excellent Sam Ashworth-Hayes in The Telegraph asks why our immigration policy does not discriminate between poorer and wealthier countries. Sam writes:

“Just as the Government is belatedly publishing “league tables” for migrant crime, it needs to come clean about how much migrants from different countries pay in and take out, breaking this down by visa route and nationality.”

Meanwhile for the Daily Mail, Professor Matt Goodwin explains the impact of uncontrolled immigration on social cohesion, because of the importation of sectarian violence:

“Because while sectarianism – the pitting of one identity against another to leverage political influence – is nothing new, it’s become particularly prominent in some communities, where the Gaza conflict has seen many voters withdraw from mainstream political parties.”

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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