A full year into Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's tenure, the number of asylum seekers removed by his government has fallen by almost half since 2016, when Brits voted to leave the European Union. was primarily a response to mass immigration.
After it was installed in Downing Street in early 2023 against the wishes of Tory members expressed in a vote, Prime Minister Sunak vowed that the government would finally take back control of the border.
But under his watch, legal immigration soared to an all-time high, with tens of thousands of mostly military-age men flooding across the English Channel, and a record 51,000 immigrants granted asylum. .
according to report from telegraph paper, The government has also failed in deporting failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals. Home Office statistics analyzed by Broadsheet show that the number of foreign criminals and foreign criminals who have been deported by the government or left the country voluntarily has fallen by nearly 50% over the past seven years, with the number of expulsions falling last year. compared to just 24,000 last year. 2016.
Last month, only 1 per cent of illegal boat migrants who crossed the English Channel from France had been removed since 2020, and only a fraction of the 111,833 migrants had been removed by the government. This happened after it was revealed that there were only 1,182 people.
Looking at the Albanians who crossed the Channel, who in theory should be easier to deport back to their home countries, given the Migrant Return Agreement between the UK and Albania, Only 5% were repatriated.
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This comes as Sunak's government has sought to convince the public that its policies are effective, for example by boasting that the Home Office has been able to clear (a large part of) the backlog of asylum seekers. Ta.
However, the government faced criticism from the left and the right, with the left claiming that thousands of cases were deemed closed in order to “game” the numbers and secure a victory.
On the right, Brexit leader Nigel Farage, among others, criticized the government for seemingly rushing through asylum applications and granting asylum to a record 51,000 foreigners last year.
Meanwhile, the government also trusted The number of illegal crossings is down 36% year-over-year, which happens to be an all-time high. An estimated 29,437 illegal immigrants are thought to have crossed the English Channel in 2023, compared to 45,774 the previous year.
Despite the decline, last year still saw the second-highest number of boat migrants crossing in recorded history, surpassing 2021, when 28,526 people crossed illegally.
Critics also claim that some of this refusal is simply a result of bad weather on the waterway, but the government insists there were as many sunny days in 2023 as the previous year.
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