This is an ongoing crisis, and the mass migrant influx will have serious, inevitable consequences in the short and long term.
As all eyes remain glued to news about Covid, this criminal activity of violating Britain’s borders and undermining its sovereignty is tolerated by the Boris Johnson government, which issues a promise every so often to stop all this, so as to make it look as though it cares about rule of law. Covid rules also do not apply to illegals.
“Boats a Distraction? Visa Overstayer Illegals Estimated at 64,000 a Year,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, September 17, 2021:
Illegal migrants who make it into Britain by obtaining legitimate visas and then not leaving are estimated at 64,000 a year, dwarfing the headline-grabbing boat migrant influx.
The ever-increasing number of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats — despite the Tories having first declared the crossings a “major incident” and promised to bring it under control in 2018 — is now the only migration-related issue to receive serious attention from British politicians.
Mass legal immigration, which the Tories no longer even pretend they will reduce “from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands”, has been largely eliminated from the public discourse as a matter of debate, while illegal immigration by methods other than small boat which once enjoyed some prominence — breaking into Britain-bound lorries, for example, sometimes harming or even killing drivers in the attempt — have also been pushed into the background.
However, Sky News has now shone a light on the scale of illegal immigration, at least, beyond the boats crisis, with tens of thousands of people becoming so-called “irregular migrants” by showing up on visas for travel, study, temporary work, or some other pretext and simply not leaving once these have expired.
In an article broadly sympathetic to the migrants, the broadcaster analysed Home Office data from 2018 to 2020 and found that an annual average of 3,600 were recorded as having arrived in Britain by boat — although this is arguably misleading, as the numbers have risen dramatically year on year and currently stand at around 14,500 for 2021 with months still to go before the year’s end.
Accounting for people stowing away in lorries etc. as well, the average number of so-called “clandestine entries” rises from 3,600 a year to around 11,400 — keeping in mind that only clandestine entries that are detected are accounted for, so “the real scale is unknown and will likely never be known” — but this is still dwarfed by the hidden influx of visa overstayers, estimated at a whopping 64,400 a year.
Sky News does not that some of these migrants may leave later on, or have left without their exit having being recorded — a product of Britain’s consistently woeful immigration data collection.
It also estimates a further 4,000 migrants a year who arrive by air with no papers or false papers — noting that “This is only those detected in airports” and that “Again, the true number is unknown” — and a total of around 120,000 children with irregular status due to being born in the UK to parents with irregular status, although weaknesses in the data make it impossible to calculate an annual average for increases in this population.…
mortimer says
This issue could be resolved by listening to the Coast Guard experts and by ARRESTING boat captains who bring illegals and giving them automatic lengthy sentences. No boat captain would risk going to jail for 10 to 15 years.
Ade Fegan says
Do the maths
That’s one million of them every 13 years
Or to put it another way
That’s one illegal boat migrant per 50 UK residents every 15 years
Or to put it another way
NOT SUSTAINABLE
gravenimage says
So true, Ade. Britian only has a population of 60 million. And this doesn’t even take into account the high birth rate of Muslims who have successfully invaded.
tgusa says
Every time I see a picture of this guy I shake my head and think, my how far western civilization has fallen. And then I see pics of some of the other western leaders and I think, I should just shoot myself, but incredibly, I never do.
gravenimage says
You aren’t the one who should be considering this, tgusa. Hang in there.
tgusa says
Hang in there (and do a lot of head shaking). That’s about all we can do right now gravenimage.
gravenimage says
That, and speaking out about the threat of Islam, tgusa.
Michael Copeland says
64,000 is a population the size of Hereford, or Canterbury, or Taunton.
As Ade Fegan above says, UNSUSTAINABLE.
OLD GUY says
WHY? Hitler could have ruled the UK if he had just sent civilians to invade the UK instead of trying to do it with his military. If a country is willing to allow an enemy to enter through mass migration invasion you can take over that country with out firing a shot. Borders have a purpose they keep your society, culture, religious beliefs and economic strength together. Islam is out to destroy your society and to install islamic world domination. WAKE UP!
James Lincoln says
OLD GUY says,
“Islam is out to destroy your society and to install islamic world domination. WAKE UP!”
True, but the commies are trying to beat them to it…
David Foot says
It is October and we have just got rumours that Patel is going to “say” that they are going to stop what we know she is going to continue to allow (same since 2018)! Boris / Priti do this regularly to shut us up.
The alien Invasion and the undermining of England by many even those professing the evil cult, which is a threat to British teachers and British children continues unabated.
The queen of 95, totally surrounded by wokes as far as the eye can see, has reportedly expressed her support for the enemy alien anti-English black lives Marxists (Marxist group known as BLM which attacked London and our flag on June 7 2020!) in her race to the bottom against Harry!
England IS in trouble, there are no adult rulers left anywhere in the room after the departure of HRH Prince Philip. The royal family produces today only pretty pictures, politicians produce only empty promises.
Giacomo Latta says
It seems that no matter who is in charge in the UK that these illegal crossings and entries will continue until muslims dominate the population. At that point muslims from elsewhere will deem the UK unfit for them.
Walter Sieruk says
Some of those Muslim boat migrants might be just jihadist “time bombs” Just waiting to go off in what they feel is the right place and specific time to exploded. Either literally with a suicide/homicide vest or another type of Muslim terrorists attack.
There is also the problem that many Muslim migrants, even though they had been kindly received by western nations are still so unappreciative and ungrateful because they have an indoctrinated Islamic arrogant contempt for Western laws and Western civilization. Which has the outcome of Muslim crimes in many different forms and Muslim rioting as has happened in Denmark and France.
All those Muslim evils is further added to by the despicable Islamic misogyny, against both girls and women .Therefore Muslim sex assaults and rapes do occur in the nations of the West because of misogynist Muslim migrants.
Ademeh says
Send them to the Refugee Processing Camp in Nauru. Give Nauru the $64000 per annum per head and call it AID.
gravenimage says
Little Nauru should not have to deal with these invading thugs, either. They are not a Muslim country.
I suppose you just mention them because the island is so remote.