Illegal immigration costs British taxpayers at least £14 billion a year in public services alone, poses an “existential” risk to the country and depletes desperately needed limited resources. , said a former cabinet minister.
Dame Andrea Jenkins, vice-chair of the European Research Group (ERG) and skills minister under short-term chancellor Liz Truss, told colleagues this week that official figures show that, on average, each illegal immigrant He said this would place a heavy burden on taxpayers. £12,000 a year in public services. There are an estimated 1.2 million illegal immigrants living in the country, and Dame Andrea estimates that services alone will cost more than £14.4 billion.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak, a former government minister and leading critic of neoliberalism, pointed out that funds spent on illegal immigrants accounted for almost 10 per cent of the entire annual budget of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). He said the following: It’s an injection of cash for the National Health Service. ”
“For too long Britain has been seen as a free lunch. Study, work, get married or smuggle yourself into the country and you’re instantly rewarded with an all-you-can-eat buffet for you and your extended family. is guaranteed,” she said. Said In a comment reported by daily mail.
“Free healthcare, education, housing, social care, legal protection and access to the world’s largest charity. It is clearly unfair to continue to ask British taxpayers to pick up the bill.”
Mr Jenkins also said the Home Office – the government department responsible for processing migrants – was spending £482m this year on immigration enforcement and £8m a day on taking in boat migrants who cross the English Channel illegally from the coast of France. It pointed out that it was expected to spend close to £1. .
Furthermore, the UK government has at least £370m Taxpayer cash sent to Rwanda. Kigali can detain up to £150,000 per illegal immigrant for five years while their asylum application is processed. Despite the French navy actively helping migrants reach British waters and Paris refusing to let them return, the government has also given France 478 million yen to step up its crackdown on smugglers. He also agreed to pay £10,000.
Unemployed migrants and international students will cost UK taxpayers £36bn from 2020: reporthttps://t.co/jS2A6a6Ees
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The numbers Mr. Jenkins presented also do not reflect the costs to the public of large-scale legal immigration. Despite Tory promises to reduce net immigration post-Brexit, costs have hit record highs under Sunak, outweighing illegal immigration by several times.
Dame Andrea, one of 11 Conservative MPs who voted against the Rwanda Bill, saying it did not go far enough, said: claimed “The only viable remedy to regain full control of its borders” is for the government to ultimately withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, thereby stripping the relevant court in Strasbourg of its powers to intervene in migrant removals. Dew. It did so in 2022, blocking the first planned flight to Rwanda and throwing deterrence plans into disarray.
The former government minister also suggested that to counter the “existential” threat, the so-called Conservative government needs to scrap its “soft approach” to illegal immigration, increase coastline surveillance and start It called for the suspension of payments to France until such time as Interdict more migrant ships operated by smugglers.
This comes as more than 2,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel since the passing of the Rwanda Security (Asylum and Immigration) Act last month, which is said to pave the way for migrants to eventually settle in the East African country. This is in response to what has happened.
Between Saturday and Monday, 396 illegal immigrants crossed the busy waterway between England and France, bringing the total for the year to an estimated 8,674. according to Based on calculations of Home Office data from the Press Association.
The news agency noted that this was a 35% increase compared to last year, when 6,415 illegal crossings were recorded, and a 15% increase compared to 2022, when there were 7,581 illegal crossings at this point this year.
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