If I could say one thing to Yvette Cooper, Labour’s Home Secretary, then it would be this. Somebody needs to start being honest with the British people about the immigration crisis that’s now engulfing this country.
That’s exactly what I said a few days ago, on national television, in a clip that’s since gone viral. Because, let’s be honest with ourselves, our politicians are lying. They’ve been lying for the last twenty-five years. And they’re still lying today.
Over the last week, Yvette Cooper set out her plans for tackling the spiralling levels of illegal immigration into Britain. And we were told, once again, that this time things will be different. This time, the plan will work. This time, people will see results.
But, to be completely honest with you —because apparently nobody else is going to be straight with the British people— the “plan” is a total mess.
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Yvette Cooper has promised to deport more people in the next six months than have been deported at any time since 2018. Only, that turned out not to be true.
She said 290 additional places will be created at two detention centres. But they still have around 1,000 fewer spaces than they used to.
She said 100 National Crime Agency staff will be recruited to stop the gangs. But the former head of Border Force has just said this won’t be anywhere enough.
She said she’s planning to deport illegal immigrants and foreign criminals back to their home countries. But only if they’re safe countries, like Vietnam and Brazil.
While this has led to some people being deported, if Yvette Cooper was actually being real with the British people then she would admit that migrants coming from safe countries are only a minority of those who are entering Britain illegally.
You don’t have to be a maths genius to do the sums. Just look at the very latest data on the disaster that’s now unfolding all around us, on the border and on the streets.
Over 97,000 people claimed asylum in this country last year. That includes 31,000 people who came on the rising number of small boats across the Channel.
A massive 58% of them, shockingly, were granted asylum, which is a reduction from the year before last, when some 71% were successful.
So, Yvette Cooper’s plan to now deport over 14,000 people in the next six months means that, even if that rate was kept up for a year, she still wouldn’t be able to deport all those whose people whose asylum claims failed last year.
Her plan would still mean a backlog of failed asylum seekers building up, a backlog of ongoing chaos and ongoing costs that the British taxpayer will have to pay.
And that doesn’t even include the illegal immigrants who arrived in earlier years, or the foreign prisoners in Britain’s jails who are eligible for deportation.
Nor does it include the many failed asylum seekers who weren’t deported in previous years, or the estimated 1.2 million illegal migrants already living in Britain.
If Yvette Cooper tried deporting those 1.2 million illegal immigrants at a rate of 14,000 every six months, it would take her nearly 43 years to finish the job.
Clearly, this is totally insufficient. But you know what?
It gets worse. It gets a lot worse.
Let’s also not forget that, after cancelling the Rwanda scheme immediately on entering office, Labour are also allowing some 90,000 illegal immigrants to enter the asylum system. Around 60,000 of those will probably be granted asylum.
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So, whatever deportations do or don’t happen, most illegal immigrants will get to stay in Britain, providing an enormous incentive for others to make the journey.
When your chance of asylum —which means gaining access to the welfare state, subsidised housing, and the job market —is over 50% then why wouldn’t you try?
Of course, it’s usually at this point that Labour do-gooders pop up and say that the high rate of asylum grants shows those claiming asylum are genuine refugees.
But we all know our human rights laws are broken.
Many of those who are granted asylum get it because they come from countries we simply don’t consider safe enough to return them to —like Afghanistan, Syria, Iran.
That means we have to let them stay. Astonishingly, we grant asylum to 96% of Afghans, 99% of Syrians, and 82% of Iranians.
As long as you get to Britain, illegally or otherwise, in other words, there’s an extremely good chance you’ll be allowed to stay.
