The UK government has spent tens of billions of dollars on unemployed migrants in just three years, with more than a million foreign-born residents receiving financial support from the government, a new report has revealed.
According to the report, taxpayers have spent more than $30 billion on unemployed undocumented immigrants (often referred to as asylum seekers) since 2020, and even more on international students.
International students deemed “economically inactive” would add another $15 billion to the total. Breitbart report.
According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics, approximately 724,000 migrants aged 16 to 64 in the region are unemployed and have not sought work within the past four weeks and/or are unable to start work within the last four weeks. classified as “people”. Next two weeks. ”
This number was a 16% increase from 623,000 in 2020.
Including international students, the total number of foreign-born residents receiving financial support from the government was 1,135,949, an increase of 25% from 2020.
Since arriving in the UK, millions of people have claimed housing benefit, universal health care, child benefit and other social schemes. express report. Universal Credit is a ‘payment to help with living costs’. british government.
Those receiving government aid also have access to tax-funded health care and schools.
Robert Bates, director of the UK Center for Immigration Management, said: “These findings show that mass immigration is far from the economic panacea that open borders advocates claim.
“Britain is currently in recession, with per capita GDP plummeting to rock bottom. Our policymakers believe that just one more year of net immigration of hundreds of thousands of people will somehow turn things around. We need to let go of illusions.”
Bates went on to say that despite two decades of “unrestricted immigration,” those with legitimate concerns were told that immigration was necessary for economic growth.
“The fact is that we currently have over a million immigrants, who make no economic contribution to Britain’s coffers and are actually forcing net drains. The least they should do is the following: Sometimes they roll up their sleeves and throw themselves into work, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.”
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