EARLIER this yr French President Emmanuel Macron blamed the surge in unlawful migrants crossing the Channel on British coverage, claiming there was no authorized immigration route.
This assertion is shattered by a report from Migration Watch UK, which exhibits that within the yr to June 2022 round 240,000 folks had been in a position to resettle to the UK in contrast with an annual common of 4,200 in the course of the interval 2015-2020, a 56-fold enhance.
Because the begin of 2021, about 150,000 refugees have come from Ukraine whereas roughly 120,000 folks have come from Hong Kong. Greater than 21,000 refugees had been resettled from Afghanistan within the midst of the Taliban’s seizure of energy final yr.
That is all regardless of the then Residence Secretary Priti Patel telling a Home of Lords committee in October 2021, whereas giving proof on the federal government’s pledge to soak up tens of 1000’s from Afghanistan: ‘We merely do not need the infrastructure or the lodging.’
Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, stated: ‘The breathtaking scale of resettlement has main implications for communities and entails massive quantities of public funds being spent on lodging together with inns, and locations ever larger strain on companies. It’s at an unsustainable stage. We should management our borders and scale back immigration at once.’
Migration Watch have produced a desk displaying that just about 400,000 refugees have settled in Britain underneath 13 totally different schemes since 2005.
You may learn the complete Migration Watch report right here.
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